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.
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.
