Service That Pleases God
1 Keep being concerned about each other as the Lord's followers should.
2 Be sure to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels as guests, without even knowing it.
3 Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering, but imagine you are there with them.
4 Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.
5 Don't fall in love with money. Be satisfied with what you have. The Lord has promised that he will not leave us or desert us. 6 This should make you feel like saying,
“The Lord helps me!
Why should I be afraid
of what people
can do to me?”
7 Don't forget about your leaders who taught you God's message. Remember what kind of lives they lived and try to have faith like theirs.
8 Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 Don't be fooled by any kind of strange teachings. It is better to receive strength from God's gift of undeserved grace than to depend on certain foods. After all, these foods don't really help the people who eat them. 10 But we have an altar where even the priests who serve in the place of worship have no right to eat.
11 After the high priest offers the blood of animals as a sin offering, the bodies of those animals are burned outside the camp. 12 Jesus himself suffered outside the city gate, so his blood would make people holy. 13 This is why we should go outside the camp to Jesus and share in his disgrace. 14 On this earth we don't have a city that lasts forever, but we are waiting for such a city.
15 Our sacrifice is to keep offering praise to God in the name of Jesus. 16 But don't forget to help others and to share your possessions with them. This too is like offering a sacrifice that pleases God.
17 Obey your leaders and do what they say. They are watching over you, and they must answer to God. So don't make them sad as they do their work. Make them happy. Otherwise, they won't be able to help you at all.
18 Pray for us. Our consciences are clear, and we always try to live right. 19 I especially want you to pray that I can visit you again soon.
Final Prayers and Greetings
20 God gives peace, and he raised our Lord Jesus Christ from death. Now Jesus is like a Great Shepherd whose blood was used to make God's eternal agreement with his flock. 21 I pray God will make you ready to obey him and that you will always be eager to do right. May Jesus help you do what pleases God. To Jesus Christ be glory forever and ever! Amen.
22 My friends, I have written only a short letter to encourage you, and I beg you to pay close attention to what I have said.
23 By now you surely must know that our friend Timothy is out of jail. If he gets here in time, I will bring him with me when I come to visit you.
24 Please give my greetings to your leaders and to the rest of the Lord's people.
His followers from Italy send you their greetings.
25 I pray that God will be kind to all of you!
Kaleni mwa wana moshilonga keshe shiwa
1 Kaleni mu hole ovamwaxo. 2 Okuyakula ovaenda inamu ku dimbwa, osheshi moku shi ninga vamwe va nangeka ovaengeli, inave shi shiiva. 3 Dimbulukweni eenghwate mwa fa mwa mangwa pamwe navo, noonakuhepekwa, osheshi nanye yo omu li molutu.
4 Ohombo nai fimanekwe kwaaveshe, nomutala wohombo nau kale uhe noshipo; osheshi ovaholi voipala novateihombo Kalunga te va tokola.
5 Mokukala kweni kaleni muhe nolwisho. Eshi mu shi kwete nashi mu wanene, osheshi Ye okwa tya: “Ame ihandi ku efa noitandi ku fii po nande.” 6 Onghee hano hatu dulu okutya nelineekelo:
“Omwene Oye omukwafi wange,
ame ihandi tila;
omunhu ota dulu okuninga nge shike?”
Kristus oshihopaenenwa shetu
7 Dimbulukweni ovakwatelikomesho veni ava ve mu udifila eendjovo daKalunga; taleni exulilo leengeda davo na shikuleni eitavelo lavo. 8 Jesus Kristus Oye tuu ou onghela nonena nofiyo alushe. 9 Inamu twalwatwalwa komalongo e lili naku lili muhe a shii; osheshi onawa omwenyo ngeenge tau pamekwa kefilonghenda, hakeendja inadi kwafa ava va kala mudo. 10 Fye otu noaltari omo mwa shilikwa okuliwa kwaava hava yakula metwali. 11 Osheshi ohonde yoinamwenyo ei tai twalwa komupristeli omukulunhu mouyapukielela omolwomatimba, ndelenee omalutu ayo otaa xwikilwa pondje yeenhanda. 12 Osho yo Jesus opo a yapule oshiwana nohonde yaye mwene, okwa hepekelwa kondje yoshivelo. 13 Onghee hano tu yeni pondje kuye, twa dja meenhanda, nokuhumbata okushekwa kwaye; 14 osheshi apa katu na oshilando tashi kalelele, ndelenee ohatu kongo shinya tashi uya. 15 Hano omolwaye natu eteleni Kalunga alushe omahambeleloyambo nokutya, oshiimati shomilungu edi tadi pandula edina laye. 16 Inamu dimbwa okulonga ouwa nokutukula mwaayo mu i kwete, osheshi omayambo a tya ngaha Kalunga e a hokwa.
17 Shikuleni ovakwatelikomesho veni, nye mu dulike kuvo, osheshi ovo hava pashukile eemwenyo deni ngaashi ovo tave ke di pulwa, opo ve shi ninge nehafo, hanokukema, osheshi osho itashi mu wapalele.
18 Ilikaneni omolwetu, osheshi fye otu shi shii shili, otu nomaliudo mawa, eshi twa hala okweenda nawa omoinima aishe. 19 Unene ohandi mu kumaida ngaha, ame ndi mu shunifilwe diva.
Omalekelo
20 Ndelenee Kalunga kombili, ou a alula mefyo omufita omukulunhu weedi omolwohonde yehangano laalushe, Omwene wetu Jesus, 21 Oye ne mu longekidile ouwa keshe, okuwanifa ehalo laye, Oye na longe munye eshi she mu wapalela omolwaJesus Kristus, efimano olaye alushe fiyo alushe. Amen.
22 Ndele ohandi mu kumaida, ovamwatate, tambuleni ondjovo ei yekumaido, osheshi onde mu shangela ashike paxupi. 23 Kaleni mu shi shii, omumwatate Timoteus okwa efiwa, nongeenge te uya diva, ohandi uya naye oku mu talela po.
24 Kundileni po ovakwatelikomesho veni aveshe novayapuki aveshe. Ava vomuItalia otave mu kundile po. 25 Efilonghenda nali kale nanye amushe! Amen.
