A Life That Pleases God
1 Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more. 2 For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality. 4 Each of you should know how to live with your wife in a holy and honorable way, 5 not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God. 6 In this matter, then, none of you should do wrong to other Christians or take advantage of them. We have told you this before, and we strongly warned you that the Lord will punish those who do that. 7 God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness. 8 So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9 There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another. 10 And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more. 11 Make it your aim to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to earn your own living, just as we told you before. 12 In this way you will win the respect of those who are not believers, and you will not have to depend on anyone for what you need.
The Lord's Coming
13 Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.
15 What we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died. 16 There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; 17 then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 So then, encourage one another with these words.
Ongarero ndji tjata ku Ndjambi
1 Norukwao, vakwetu, eṋe mwe rihongera ku eṱe kutja ongarero yeṋu mai sokusana pi kutja Ndjambi a tjaterwe. Neṋe otjinga amu tjita nao. Nungwari nambano mena ra Muhona Jesus eṱe matu riyarikaṋa ku eṋe nokumuronga kutja mu ryamene ko tjinene mu imbi. 2 Eṋe mamu tjiwa inga omahongero ngu twe mu pa mouvara wa Muhona Jesus. 3 Ndjambi u vanga kutja mu rire ovayapuke, nokutja mu ritjaere oparukaze koruvakiro. 4 Omurumendu auhe u sokutjiwa kutja ma sokuhupa mouyapuke na mondjozikiro komukazendu we, 5 nu kamomananukiro wozonḓuma otja ovanavisenginina mbe ha tjiwa Ndjambi. 6 Nu ape ha ningi omundu ngu ma tjiti ouvi novineya komukwao. Eṱe twe mu raera rukuru nu twe mu ronga oukukutu kutja Muhona u vera imba mbe ri nao. 7 Ndjambi ke tu isanene kokuhupa mouhakohoke, nungwari we tu isanena kokuhupa mouyapuke. 8 Nu auhe ngu ma imbirahi omahongero nga, ke nokuimbirahi ovandu, nungwari ma imbirahi Ndjambi ngwe mu pa wina Ombepo ye Ondjapuke.
9 Nu kahepero okumutjangera kutja mu suvere ovakweṋu; eṋe oveni mwa hongwa i Ndjambi okusuverasana. 10 Eṋe hapo mwa tjita nao kovakweṋu avehe mehi arihe ra Makedonie; nungwari matu riyarikaṋa ku eṋe, vakwetu, kutja mu ryamene ko tjinene moviṋa mbi. 11 Ngarire onḓero yeṋu okukara nongarero ndja porimana nokuṱuna imbi ovyeṋu oveni nokuungurira ehupo reṋu oveni otja punga atwe mu raera rutenga, 12 komuhingo mbwi otji mamu munu ondjozikiro ku imba mbe ri pendje yombongo, notji mu hi nokurekareka kovandu varwe.
Omakotokero wa Muhona rukwao
13 Vakwetu, matu vanga kutja mu tjiwe ouatjiri ohunga na imba mba ṱa, kokutja amu ha ṱoruhoze otja ovandu mba mbe hi nomaundjiro. 14 Eṱe tu kambura kutja Jesus wa ṱa, nokutja wina wa penduka. Notji tu kambura kutja Ndjambi ma kotora ku ye omuini puna Jesus imba mba ṱa ave nongamburiro mu Jesus.
15 Imbi mbi matu mu hongo nambano ovyo mbi Muhona mbye tu raera: Eṱe mba mbu matu kara nomuinyo nga keyuva ndi Muhona ndi meya, katu nakutengera po imba mba ṱa. 16 Ondavaerero yomarakiza wa Ndjambi tji ya pose, neraka romuengeri omunene tji ra zuvaka, nohiva ya Ndjambi tji ya pose, Muhona omuini ma rauka keyuru. Nu imba mba ṱa ave nongamburiro mu Kristus mave tenge po okupenduka; 17 tjazumba eṱe mba mbu matu vazewa nomuinyo moruveze ndo matu toorwa pamwe na wo movikambe okukahakaena na Muhona, notji matu kakara aruhe puna Muhona. 18 Otji mamu sokuyarurasana pehi omitima nomambo nga.
