His Approaching Visit
1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Hii ndiyo mara ya tatu ya mimi kuja kwenu. Kwa vinywa vya mashahidi wawili au watatu kila neno litathibitishwa.
2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
Nimetangulia kuwaambia; na, kama vile nilipokuwapo mara ya pili, vivyo hivyo sasa nisipokuwapo, nawaambia wazi wao waliotenda dhambi tangu hapo, na wengine wote, ya kwamba, nikija, sitahurumia;
3 since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
kwa kuwa mnatafuta dalili ya Kristo, asemaye ndani yangu, ambaye si dhaifu kwenu, bali ana uweza ndani yenu.
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Maana, alisulibiwa katika udhaifu, lakini anaishi kwa nguvu za Mungu. Maana sisi nasi tu dhaifu katika yeye; lakini tutaishi pamoja naye kwa uweza wa Mungu ulio kwenu.
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Jijaribuni wenyewe kwamba mmekuwa katika imani; jithibitisheni wenyewe. Au hamjijui wenyewe, kwamba Yesu Kristo yu ndani yenu? Isipokuwa mmekataliwa.
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Lakini natumaini kama mtajua ya kuwa sisi hatukukataliwa.
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
Nasi twamwomba Mungu, msifanye lo lote lililo baya; si kwamba sisi tuonekane tumekubaliwa, lakini ninyi mfanye lile lililo jema, tujapokuwa sisi tu kama waliokataliwa.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
Maana hatuwezi kutenda neno lo lote kinyume cha kweli, bali kwa ajili ya kweli.
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Maana twafurahi, iwapo sisi tu dhaifu, nanyi mmekuwa hodari. Tena twaomba hili nalo, kutimilika kwenu.
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Kwa sababu hiyo, naandika haya nisipokuwapo, ili, nikiwapo, nisiutumie ukali kwa kadiri ya uwezo ule niliopewa na Bwana, kwa kujenga wala si kwa kubomoa.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Hatimaye, ndugu, kwaherini; mtimilike, mfarijike, nieni mamoja, mkae katika amani; na Mungu wa upendo na amani atakuwa pamoja nanyi.
12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
Salimianeni kwa busu takatifu.
13 All the saints salute you.
Watakatifu wote wawasalimu.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.
Neema ya Bwana Yesu Kristo, na pendo la Mungu, na ushirika wa Roho Mtakatifu ukae nanyi nyote.
