How to Please God
1 Keep on loving one another as Christians. 2 Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did that and welcomed angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.
4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
5 Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.” 6 Let us be bold, then, and say,
“The Lord is my helper,
I will not be afraid.
What can anyone do to me?”
7 Remember your former leaders, who spoke God's message to you. Think back on how they lived and died, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.
10 The priests who serve in the Jewish place of worship have no right to eat any of the sacrifice on our altar. 11 The Jewish high priest brings the blood of the animals into the Most Holy Place to offer it as a sacrifice for sins; but the bodies of the animals are burned outside the camp. 12 For this reason Jesus also died outside the city, in order to purify the people from sin with his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp and share his shame. 14 For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come. 15 Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord. 16 Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.
17 Obey your leaders and follow their orders. They watch over your souls without resting, since they must give to God an account of their service. If you obey them, they will do their work gladly; if not, they will do it with sadness, and that would be of no help to you.
18 Keep on praying for us. We are sure we have a clear conscience, because we want to do the right thing at all times. 19 And I beg you even more earnestly to pray that God will send me back to you soon.
Closing Prayer
20-21 God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
Final Words
22 I beg you, my friends, to listen patiently to this message of encouragement; for this letter I have written you is not very long. 23 I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been let out of prison. If he comes soon enough, I will have him with me when I see you.
24 Give our greetings to all your leaders and to all God's people. The believers from Italy send you their greetings.
25 May God's grace be with you all.
1 Panḓereye pokusuverasana otja ovakambure. 2 Amu zembi okusekirisa ovozonganda mozoyeṋu; tjiva va tjita nai nave sekirisa ovaengeri ave hi nokutjiwa. 3 Zemburukeye ovapandekwa aayo eṋe wina mwa pandekwa puna wo. Zemburukeye ovatatumisiwa aayo eṋe wina mu tatumisiwa otja wo. 4 Orukupo ngaru yozikwe i avehe, novakupasane ngave karasane nouṱakame. Ndjambi u pangura ovavakirasane novakatuke votukupo.
5 Ongarero yeṋu ai rire oyokusuvera ovimariva, nu kareye nohange na imbi mbi mu na vyo. Orondu Ndjambi wa tjere: “Ami himee ku esa ko; nu himee ku imbirahi ko!” 6 Eṱe otji matu sora okutja nai nomutima omupandi:
“Muhona eye omuvatere wandje,
nu hi nokutira ko.
Omundu me ndji tjiti tjike?”
Hivirikeye Ndjambi mu Jesus Kristus
7 Zemburukeye ovanane veṋu ovatenga mba zuvarisire embo ra Ndjambi ku eṋe. Zemburukeye omuhingo mbwaa ve kara na tji va ṱa, nu mu horere kongamburiro yawo. 8 Jesus Kristus onguri ye erero na ndino na aruhe nga aruhe. 9 Amu riyandjere okupukisiwa nomahongero omengi pekepeke omape. Omasa weṋu womomutima ye za motjari tja Ndjambi, nu kaye zu mokukara nonḓuviro komazeva wovikurya. Omazeva nga kaenotjiṋa tji ye vatera komundu.
10 Ovapristeri mbe karera moṋa Ovajuda mu ve rikotamenena, kave nousemba okurira ombunguhiro ngamwa aihe kotjipunguhiro tjetu. 11 Omupristeri Otjiuru u hitisa ombinḓu yovinamuinyo mOtjouyapukeyapuke okukeipunguha kutja i rire ombunguhiro yokuisapo ourunde; nungwari otutu twovinamuinyo tu ningiririsirwa pendje yozondanda! 12 Jesus wina opa zokuṱira pendje yotjihuro, kokutja a kohorore ovandu nombinḓu ye. 13 Neṱe wina ngatu yende ku ye pendje yozondanda, nu tu zare puna ye inga omayambururiro we. 14 Orondu mouye mbwi eṱe katu nomaturiro omakarerere; eṱe matu paha omaturiro ngu maye ya. 15 Nu aruhe ngatu punguhire Ndjambi ombunguhiro yondangero mu Jesus, okutja indji ondangero ndji mai etwa ku ye nomiṋa mbi hongonona ena re. 16 Amu zembi okutjita ouwa nokuvaterasana, orondu ozombunguhiro otja inḓa ze tjata ku Ndjambi.
17 Zuveye kovanane veṋu nu mu riwise kehi yawo. Owo ve tjevera ominyo vyeṋu nokuhinorusuwo, tjinga amave sokuyandja omerizirira woviungura vyawo ku Ndjambi. Tji mamu zuu ku wo, owo mave ungura oviungura vyawo nenyando; tji mu hi nokutjita nao, owo mave vi ungura noruhoze, notji pe hi nokumuvatera.
18 Panḓereye pokutukumbira. Eṱe matu tjiwa nawa kutja momitima vyetu turi nawa, tjinga atu vanga okutjita ihi tji tji ri otjisemba oruveze aruhe. 19 Nu ami me riyarikaṋa tjinene ku eṋe mu kumbe kutja Ndjambi e ndji kotore ku eṋe tjimanga.
Ongumbiro yomapatero
20 Ndjambi ngu yandja ohange wa pendura movakoke ingwi oMuhona wetu Jesus, ngu ri omurise omunene worupanda rwe mombinḓu yomerikutiropamwe waaruhe. 21 Ndjambi wina nge mu pe avihe oviwa, kokutja mu tjite ombango ye. Eye nga yenenise mu eṱe ihi eye me nonyuṋe mena ra Jesus Kristus, nga pewe ondjozikiro aruhe nga aruhe! Amen.
Omarongero omasenina nozombinika
22 Vakwetu, ami me riyarikaṋa ku eṋe kutja mu puratene nomuretima komambo nga ngu mbe mu panḓiparisa na wo, nandarire kutja orutuu ndu mba tjanga ku eṋe ndwi orwo karure tjinene. 23 Eṋe wina mamu sokutjiwa kutja omukwetu Timoteus wa pita motjovakamburwa. Neye tje ya tjimanga ku ami, matu yende pamwe ami tji meya okumutara.
24 Minikeye ovanane veṋu avehe notjiwaṋa atjihe tja Ndjambi. Novakwetu ovakambure mba zira kOitalie wina mave mu minike.
25 Otjari tja Ndjambi ngatji kare na eṋe amuhe!
