They Are All Under Sin
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Basi Myahudi ana ziada gani? Na kutahiriwa kwafaa nini?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Kwafaa sana kwa kila njia. Kwanza kwa kuwa wamekabidhiwa mausia ya Mungu.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Ni nini, basi, ikiwa baadhi yao hawakuamini? Je! Kutokuamini kwao kutaubatili uaminifu wa Mungu?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings,
And mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Hasha! Mungu aonekane kuwa amini na kila mtu mwongo; kama ilivyoandikwa, Ili ujulike kuwa una haki katika maneno yako, Ukashinde uingiapo katika hukumu.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
Lakini, ikiwa udhalimu wetu waithibitisha haki ya Mungu, tuseme nini? Je! Mungu ni dhalimu aletaye ghadhabu? (Nasema kwa jinsi ya kibinadamu.)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Hasha! Kwa maana hapo Mungu atawezaje kuuhukumu ulimwengu?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Lakini, ikiwa kweli ya Mungu imezidi kudhihirisha utukufu wake kwa sababu ya uongo wangu, mbona mimi ningali nahukumiwa kuwa ni mwenye dhambi?
8 And not rather , (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Kwa nini tusiseme (kama tulivyosingiziwa, na kama wengine wanavyokaza kusema ya kwamba twasema hivyo), Na tufanye mabaya, ili yaje mema? Ambao kuhukumiwa kwao kuna haki.
9 What then? are we better than they ? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Ni nini basi? Tu bora kuliko wengine? La! Hata kidogo. Kwa maana tumekwisha kuwashitaki Wayahudi na Wayunani ya kwamba pia wamekuwa chini ya dhambi;
10 as it is written,
There is none righteous, no, not one:
kama ilivyoandikwa, ya kwamba, Hakuna mwenye haki hata mmoja.
11 There is none that understandeth,
There is none that seeketh after God.
Hakuna afahamuye; Hakuna amtafutaye Mungu.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Wote wamepotoka, wameoza wote pia; Hakuna mtenda mema, la! Hata mmoja.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre;
With their tongues they have used deceit;
The poison of asps is under their lips:
Koo lao ni kaburi wazi, Kwa ndimi zao wametumia hila. Sumu ya fira i chini ya midomo yao.
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Vinywa vyao vimejaa laana na uchungu.
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Miguu yao ina mbio kumwaga damu.
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Uharibifu na mashaka yamo njiani mwao.
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
Wala njia ya amani hawakuijua.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Kumcha Mungu hakupo machoni pao.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Basi twajua ya kuwa mambo yote inenayo torati huyanena kwa hao walio chini ya torati, ili kila kinywa kifumbwe, na ulimwengu wote uwe chini ya hukumu ya Mungu;
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
kwa sababu hakuna mwenye mwili atakayehesabiwa haki mbele zake kwa matendo ya sheria; kwa maana kutambua dhambi huja kwa njia ya sheria.
God's Saving Gift
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Lakini sasa, haki ya Mungu imedhihirika pasipo sheria; inashuhudiwa na torati na manabii;
22 even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
ni haki ya Mungu iliyo kwa njia ya imani katika Yesu Kristo kwa wote waaminio. Maana hakuna tofauti;
23 for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
kwa sababu wote wamefanya dhambi, na kupungukiwa na utukufu wa Mungu;
24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
wanahesabiwa haki bure kwa neema yake, kwa njia ya ukombozi ulio katika Kristo Yesu;
25 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
ambaye Mungu amekwisha kumweka awe upatanisho kwa njia ya imani katika damu yake, ili aonyeshe haki yake, kwa sababu ya kuziachilia katika ustahimili wa MUNGU dhambi zote zilzotangulia kufanywa.
26 to declare, I say , at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
apate kuonyesha haki yake wakati huu, ili awe mwenye haki na mwenye kumhesabu haki yeye amwaminiye Yesu.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Ku wapi, basi, kujisifu? Kumefungiwa nje. Kwa sheria ya namna gani? Kwa sheria ya matendo? La! Bali kwa sheria ya imani.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Basi, twaona ya kuwa mwanadamu huhesabiwa haki kwa imani pasipo matendo ya sheria.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Au je! Mungu ni Mungu wa Wayahudi tu? Siye Mungu wa Mataifa pia? Naam, ni Mungu wa Mataifa pia;
30 seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
kama kwa kweli Mungu ni mmoja, atakayewahesabia haki wale waliotahiriwa katika imani, nao wale wasiotahiriwa atawahesabia haki kwa njia ya imani iyo hiyo.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Basi, je! Twaibatilisha sheria kwa imani hiyo? Hasha! Kinyume cha hayo twaithibitisha sheria.
