From Death to Life
1 In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins. 2 At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God. 3 Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.
4 But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great, 5 that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved. 6 In our union with Christ Jesus he raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world. 7 He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus. 8-9 For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it. 10 God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.
One in Christ
11 You Gentiles by birth—called “the uncircumcised” by the Jews, who call themselves the circumcised (which refers to what men do to their bodies)—remember what you were in the past. 12 At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God. 13 But now, in union with Christ Jesus you, who used to be far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For Christ himself has brought us peace by making Jews and Gentiles one people. With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies. 15 He abolished the Jewish Law with its commandments and rules, in order to create out of the two races one new people in union with himself, in this way making peace. 16 By his death on the cross Christ destroyed their enmity; by means of the cross he united both races into one body and brought them back to God. 17 So Christ came and preached the Good News of peace to all—to you Gentiles, who were far away from God, and to the Jews, who were near to him. 18 It is through Christ that all of us, Jews and Gentiles, are able to come in the one Spirit into the presence of the Father.
19 So then, you Gentiles are not foreigners or strangers any longer; you are now citizens together with God's people and members of the family of God. 20 You, too, are built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus himself. 21 He is the one who holds the whole building together and makes it grow into a sacred temple dedicated to the Lord. 22 In union with him you too are being built together with all the others into a place where God lives through his Spirit.
Okuza konḓiro okuyenda komuinyo
1 Moruveze ndwa kapita eṋe mwa kokere, tjinga amu ha ri nonḓuviro ku Ndjambi nu tjinga amwa tjitire ourunde. 2 Momayuva ngo aa mu ryanga mongaro yourunde youye mbwi, neṋe mwa ri nonḓuviro komuhonapare womasa wombepo mevaverwa, indji ombepo nambano ndji ungura movandu mbe hi nonḓuviro ku Ndjambi. 3 Rukuru eṱe atuhe twa ri tjimuna wo, nu aa tu hupu otja kozonḓuma zetu zonyama; eṱe aa tu tjiti ozonḓero zotutu nozozondunge zetu oveni. Neṱe otja ovandu ovakwetu avehe twa sokuverwa i Ndjambi momazenge we.
4 Nungwari Ndjambi we ura notjari norusuvero rwe orunene tjinene. 5 Nu ngunda atwa ṱa mokuhinanḓuviro kwetu eye we tu kotora komuinyo puna Kristus. Nu motjari tja Ndjambi eṋe mwa yamwa! 6 Nu moruwano na Kristus Jesus eye we tu pendura puna ye ne tu pe oruveze puna ye meyuru. 7 Komuhingo mbwi moruveze ndu maru ya Ndjambi ma vanga okuraisa ounene wotjari tje ouhimise morusuvero eye ndwa kara na ro na eṱe mu Kristus Jesus. 8 Orondu eṋe, tjiri, mwa yamwa i ongamburiro mena rotjari tja Ndjambi. Nondjamo ndji kai zire mu eṋe oveni, nungwari oyo otjiyandjewa tja Ndjambi. 9 Oyo kai zu moviungura vyeṋu oveni, notji pe hi nokusokukara omundu ngu me rihivi omuini. 10 Ndjambi we tu uta otja tji tu ri nai, nu moruwano na Kristus Jesus eye we tu utira kutja mongarero yetu mu ze oviungura oviwa mbye tu ṱunina kutja tu hupe mu vyo.
Avehe ivemwe mu Kristus
11 Zemburukeye kutja rukuru mwa ri ovakwatjike. Okuza kongwatero yeṋu eṋe mwa ri ovehina Ndjambi, nu Ovajuda ave mu tja oweṋe “ovahasukara”, owo oveni ngunda ave ritja “ovasukare”, nandarire kutja ingwi okusukara ku tjitwa i ovandu korutu. 12 Momayuva ngo eṋe mwa ri kokure na Kristus. Eṋe mwa ri ovozonganda nu kamwa ri owotjiwaṋa otjitoororwa tja Ndjambi. Eṋe kamwa ri norupa momerikutiropamwe na momakwizikiro wawo, nu mwa kara nokuhinomaundjiro nokuhina Ndjambi mouye. 13 Nungwari nambano moruwano na Kristus Jesus eṋe mbu mwa ri kokure mwa kotorwa popezu i ombinḓu ya Kristus. 14 Orondu Kristus tjinga e ri ohange yetu; neye wa tjita kutja Ovajuda na imba mbe he ri Ovajuda ve rire otjiwaṋa tjimwe. Nu mokuṱa kwe eye wa teya orumbo ndwe ve haṋene nu ndwe ve tjitire ovanavita kumwe. 15 Eye wa yandeka Omatwako wOvajuda nomazikamisiro nomaraerero wawo kokutja omihoko vivari mbi a tjite vi rire otjiwaṋa tjimwe otjipe moruwano na ye, nu komuhingo mbwi a twe po ohange. 16 Nu monḓiro ye kotjikoroise eye wa yandisa ovita pokati komihoko vivari mbi, e vi hanganisa na Ndjambi ne vi wanisa avi rire orutu rumwe. 17 Kristus otje ya na zuvarisa Ombuze Ombwa yohange kovandu avehe, okutja ku eṋe mbu mu he ri Ovajuda nu mbu mwa ri kokure na Ndjambi na kOvajuda mba ri popezu na ye. 18 Nu mu Kristus eṱe atuhe, okutja Ovajuda na mbu tu he ri Ovajuda, matu yenene okuya mOmbepo imwe komurungu wa Tate.
19 Neṋe kaweṋe owozonganda novambangu rukwao; nambano oweṋe oworuuto rumwe notjiwaṋa tja Ndjambi nouṋepo wonganda ya Ndjambi. 20 Eṋe mwa tungwa kombanda yomazikameno wovaapostele novaprofete, nu Kristus Jesus omuini e ri ngu ri indji ongunḓe yomatungiro. 21 Eye ongu ṱizira inga omatungiro aehe kumwe, nu mu ye owo ye hapa okurira ondjuwo ondjapuke mu Muhona. 22 Nu moruwano na ye eṋe wina mu tungwa mumwe novakweṋu avehe okurira omatungiro Ndjambi ma tura mOmbepo ye.
