The New Life
1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Iliyobaki, ndugu, tunakusihini na kuwaonya kwamba mwenende katika Bwana Yesu; kama mlivyopokea kwetu jinsi iwapasavyo kuenenda na kumpendeza Mungu, kama nanyi mnavyoenenda, vivyo hivyo mpate kuzidi sana.
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
Kwa kuwa mnajua ni maagizo gani tuliyowapa kwa Bwana Yesu.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Maana haya ndiyo mapenzi ya Mungu, kutakaswa kwenu, mwepukane na uasherati;
4 that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
kila mmoja wenu ajue kuuweza mwili wake katika utakatifu na heshima;
5 not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
si katika hali ya tamaa mbaya, kama Mataifa wasiomjua Mungu.
6 that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Mtu asimpunje ndugu yake wala kumkosa katika jambo hili; kwa sababu Bwana ndiye alipizaye kisasi cha haya yote; kama tulivyowaambia kwanza, tukashuhudia sana.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Maana Mungu hakutuitia uchafu, bali tuwe katika utakaso.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Basi yeye anayekataa, hakatai mwanadamu bali Mungu, anayewapa ninyi Roho wake Mtakatifu.
9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Katika habari ya upendano, hamna haja niwaandikie; maana ninyi wenyewe mmefundishwa na Mungu kupendana.
10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
Kwa maana mnafanya neno hili kwa ndugu wote walio katika Makedonia yote. Lakini twawasihi, ndugu, mzidi sana.
11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Tena mjitahidi kutulia, na kutenda shughuli zenu, na kufanya kazi kwa mikono yenu wenyewe, kama tulivyowaagiza;
12 that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
ili mwenende kwa adabu mbele yao walio nje, wala msiwe na haja ya kitu cho chote.
The Coming of the Lord
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Lakini, ndugu, hatutaki msijue habari zao waliolala mauti, msije mkahuzunika kama na wengine wasio na matumaini.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Maana, ikiwa twaamini ya kwamba Yesu alikufa akafufuka, vivyo hivyo na hao waliolala katika Yesu, Mungu atawaleta pamoja naye.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Kwa kuwa twawaambieni haya kwa neno la Bwana, kwamba sisi tulio hai, tutakaosalia hata wakati wa kuja kwake Bwana, hakika hatutawatangulia wao waliokwisha kulala mauti.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Kwa sababu Bwana mwenyewe atashuka kutoka mbinguni pamoja na mwaliko, na sauti ya malaika mkuu, na parapanda ya Mungu; nao waliokufa katika Kristo watafufuliwa kwanza.
17 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Kisha sisi tulio hai, tuliosalia, tutanyakuliwa pamoja nao katika mawingu, ili tumlaki Bwana hewani; na hivyo tutakuwa pamoja na Bwana milele.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Basi, farijianeni kwa maneno hayo.
