Run with Patience
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Basi na sisi pia, kwa kuwa tunazungukwa na wingu kubwa la mashahidi namna hii, na tuweke kando kila mzigo mzito, na dhambi ile ituzingayo kwa upesi; na tupige mbio kwa saburi katika yale mashindano yaliyowekwa mbele yetu,
2 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
tukimtazama Yesu, mwenye kuanzisha na mwenye kutimiza imani yetu; ambaye kwa ajili ya furaha iliyowekwa mbele yake aliustahimili msalaba na kuidharau aibu, naye ameketi mkono wa kuume wa kiti cha enzi cha Mungu.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Maana mtafakarini sana yeye aliyeyastahimili mapingamizi makuu namna hii ya watendao dhambi juu ya nafsi zao, msije mkachoka, mkizimia mioyoni mwenu.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Hamjafanya vita hata kumwagika damu, mkishindana na dhambi;
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
tena mmeyasahau yale maonyo, yasemayo nanyi kama kusema na wana, Mwanangu, usiyadharau marudia ya Bwana, Wala usizimie moyo ukikemewa naye;
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Maana yeye ambaye Bwana ampenda, humrudi, Naye humpiga kila mwana amkubaliye.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Ni kwa ajili ya kurudiwa mwastahimili; Mungu awatendea kama wana; maana ni mwana yupi asiyerudiwa na babaye?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Basi kama mkiwa hamna kurudiwa, ambako ni fungu la wote, ndipo mmekuwa wana wa haramu ninyi, wala si wana wa halali.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us , and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Na pamoja na hayo tulikuwa na baba zetu wa mwili walioturudi, nasi tukawastahi; basi si afadhali sana kujitia chini ya Baba wa roho zetu na kuishi?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Maana ni hakika, hao kwa siku chache waliturudi kama walivyoona vema wenyewe; bali yeye kwa faida yetu, ili tuushiriki utakatifu wake.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Kila adhabu wakati wake haionekani kuwa kitu cha furaha, bali cha huzuni; lakini baadaye huwaletea wao waliozoezwa nayo matunda ya haki yenye amani.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Kwa hiyo inyosheni mikono iliyolegea na magoti yaliyopooza,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
mkaifanyie miguu yenu njia za kunyoka, ili kitu kilicho kiwete kisipotoshwe, bali afadhali kiponywe.
14 Follow peace with all men , and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Tafuteni kwa bidii kuwa na amani na watu wote, na huo utakatifu, ambao hapana mtu atakayemwona Bwana asipokuwa nao;
15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby many be defiled;
mkiangalia sana mtu asiipungukie neema ya Mungu; shina la uchungu lisije likachipuka na kuwasumbua, na watu wengi wakatiwa unajisi kwa hilo.
16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Asiwepo mwasherati wala asiyemcha Mungu, kama Esau, aliyeuuza urithi wake wa mzaliwa wa kwanza kwa ajili ya chakula kimoja.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Maana mwajua ya kuwa hata alipotaka baadaye kuirithi baraka, alikataliwa (maana hakuona nafasi ya kutubu), ijapokuwa aliitafuta sana kwa machozi.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Maana hamkufikilia mlima uwezao kuguswa, uliowaka moto, wala wingu jeusi, na giza, na tufani,
19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
na mlio wa baragumu na sauti ya maneno; ambayo wale walioisikia walisihi wasiambiwe neno lo lote lingine;
20 (for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
maana hawakuweza kustahimili neno lile lililoamriwa, Hata mnyama akiugusa huo mlima atapigwa kwa mawe.
21 and so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Na hayo yaliyoonekana jinsi yalivyokuwa ya kutisha, hata Musa akasema, Nimeshikwa na hofu na kutetemeka.
22 but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Bali ninyi mmeufikilia mlima Sayuni, na mji wa Mungu aliye hai, Yerusalemu wa mbinguni, na majeshi ya malaika elfu nyingi,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
mkutano mkuu na kanisa la wazaliwa wa kwanza walioandikwa mbinguni, na Mungu mwamuzi wa watu wote, na roho za watu wenye haki waliokamilika,
24 and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
na Yesu mjumbe wa agano jipya, na damu ya kunyunyizwa, inenayo mema kuliko ile ya Habili.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape , if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Angalieni msimkatae yeye anenaye. Maana ikiwa hawakuokoka wale waliomkataa yeye aliyewaonya juu ya nchi, zaidi sana hatutaokoka sisi tukijiepusha na yeye atuonyaye kutoka mbinguni;
26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
ambaye sauti yake iliitetemesha nchi wakati ule; lakini sasa ameahidi akisema, Mara moja tena nitatetemesha si nchi tu, bali na mbingu pia.
27 And this word , Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Lakini neno lile, Mara moja tena, ladhihirisha kuhamishwa vile viwezavyo kutetemeshwa, kama vitu vilivyoumbwa, vitu visivyoweza kutetemeshwa vikae.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Basi kwa kuwa tunapokea ufalme usioweza kutetemeshwa, na mwe na neema, ambayo kwa hiyo tumtolee Mungu ibada ya kumpendeza, pamoja na unyenyekevu na kicho;
29 for our God is a consuming fire.
maana Mungu wetu ni moto ulao.
