God's Judgment
1 Do you, my friend, pass judgment on others? You have no excuse at all, whoever you are. For when you judge others and then do the same things which they do, you condemn yourself. 2 We know that God is right when he judges the people who do such things as these. 3 But you, my friend, do those very things for which you pass judgment on others! Do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4 Or perhaps you despise his great kindness, tolerance, and patience. Surely you know that God is kind, because he is trying to lead you to repent. 5 But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed. 6 For God will reward each of us according to what we have done. 7 Some people keep on doing good, and seek glory, honor, and immortal life; to them God will give eternal life. 8 Other people are selfish and reject what is right, in order to follow what is wrong; on them God will pour out his anger and fury. 9 There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil, for the Jews first and also for the Gentiles. 10 But God will give glory, honor, and peace to all who do what is good, to the Jews first and also to the Gentiles. 11 For God judges everyone by the same standard.
12 The Gentiles do not have the Law of Moses; they sin and are lost apart from the Law. The Jews have the Law; they sin and are judged by the Law. 13 For it is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands. 14 The Gentiles do not have the Law; but whenever they do by instinct what the Law commands, they are their own law, even though they do not have the Law. 15 Their conduct shows that what the Law commands is written in their hearts. Their consciences also show that this is true, since their thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them. 16 And so, according to the Good News I preach, this is how it will be on that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge the secret thoughts of all.
The Jews and the Law
17 What about you? You call yourself a Jew; you depend on the Law and boast about God; 18 you know what God wants you to do, and you have learned from the Law to choose what is right; 19 you are sure that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor for the foolish, and a teacher for the ignorant. You are certain that in the Law you have the full content of knowledge and of truth. 21 You teach others—why don't you teach yourself? You preach, “Do not steal”—but do you yourself steal? 22 You say, “Do not commit adultery”—but do you commit adultery? You detest idols—but do you rob temples? 23 You boast about having God's law—but do you bring shame on God by breaking his law? 24 The scripture says, “Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God.”
25 If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised. 26 If the Gentile, who is not circumcised, obeys the commands of the Law, will not God regard him as though he were circumcised? 27 And so you Jews will be condemned by the Gentiles because you break the Law, even though you have it written down and are circumcised; but they obey the Law, even though they are not physically circumcised. 28 After all, who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing. 29 Rather, the real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised, and this is the work of God's Spirit, not of the written Law. Such a person receives praise from God, not from human beings.
Ovajuda ovo yo ovalunde ngaashi ovapaani
1 Onghee hano, omunhu ove, uhe nelipopilo, nande u kale oove olyelye ho tokola. Osheshi mwaai ho tokola omunhu, oho litokola ove mwene, osheshi ove ou ho tokola, osho yo ho ningi. 2 Ndele tu shi shii etokolo laKalunga oli li lopaushili kwava hava longo ei. 3 Ndele omunhu ove ou ho tokola ava hava ningi ngaha ndele osho ove mwene yo ho ningi, u shii oto i etokolo laKalunga onhapo? 4 Ile oto dini ouyadi wouwa nowonheni nowomutima mule waye, ndele ove ino shiiva ouwa waKalunga tau ku shilile kelidilululo? 5 Ndelenee melikukutiko loye nomokuhelidilulula kwomutima woye, oto lihapupalifile ehandu mefiku lehandu noleholoko liyuki laKalunga, 6 ou ta ka pa keshe tuu ou shi fike poilonga yaye: 7 Kwaava tava kongo oshinge nefimano nokuhaxulapo mokudiinina oilonga iwa, omwenyo waalushe, 8 ndelenee kwaava hava kongo osho shavo vene nokwaava ihava dulika koshili, ndele hava dulika koulunde, ehandukilo nonya. 9 Oudjuu netilo otali uya komwenyo wakeshe tuu omunhu ta ningi owii, tete owOmujuda nowOmugreka yo; 10 ndele oshinge nefimano nombili okukeshe tuu ou ta wanifa ouwa, tete Omujuda nOmugreka yo. 11 Osheshi Kalunga iha tale oshipala shomunhu.
12 Osheshi aveshe ava va nyona vehe nomhango, ovo tava ka kana vehe nomhango, ndele ava va nyona ve nomhango, otava ka tokolwa pamhango; 13 osheshi ava tava pwilikine omhango, havo ovayuki koshipala shaKalunga, ndelenee ovawanifi vomhango ovo tava ka yukipalifwa. 14 Osheshi ovapaani ava vehe nomhango, nge tava longo pashitwe eshi tashi pulwa komhango, nande vehe nomhango, ovo omhango kuvo vene, 15 ndele ohava holola nokutya, oshilonga shomhango osha shangelwa ngaha momitima davo, omaliudo avo pamwe nomadiladilo avo eshi taa hepaululilafana noku va pa oushima ile noku va popila, 16 efiku olo Kalunga eshi ta tokola muKristus Jesus oiholekwa yovanhu opavaengeli lange.
17 Tala, ngeenge ho ti, oove Omujuda, ndele ho lineekele omhango, ndele ho litangele Kalunga, 18 nehalo laye u li shii, ndele u shii okutongola oinima ei ya wapala shili, shaashi wa longwa momhango, 19 ndele ho diladila to dulu okukala omukwati komhango wovapofi, ouyelele waava ve li momulaulu, 20 omutekuli waava vehe neendunge, nomulongi wounona, eshi u na momhango olupe lounongo noloshili; 21 ongahelipi hano, ove ou ho longo ovanhu, iho lilongo ove mwene; ho udifa vaha vake, ndele ove ho vake; 22 ho ti, vo vaha haele, ndele ove ho haele, ho nyanyaula oikalunga ndele oto nyeke eetembeli; 23 ove ho litangele omhango ndele oto dini Kalunga mokunyona omhango? 24 Osheshi omolweni edina laKalunga tali shekwa movapaani, ngaashi pa shangwa.
25 Heeno, epitotanda otali kwafa ashike ngeenge to wanifa omhango; ndelenee ove ngeenge omunyoni womhango, opo nee nande wa pita etanda, oto kala wa fa ino li pita. 26 Navali, ou ina pita etanda, ngeenge ta wanifa eenghedi domhango, ita talwa mbela oye a pita etanda, nande ina pita etanda? 27 Hano ou ina pita etanda palutu ndele ota wanifa omhango, oye te ku tokola, oove ou u neendada domhango nowa pita etanda, ndele to nyono omhango. 28 Osheshi Omujuda haye ou e wetike kombada, nepitotanda kali fi eli hali ningwa kombada mombelela, 29 ndelenee, Omujuda washili oye ou Omujuda womeni, nepitotanda loshili oleli lomomutima, omomhepo, hapaendada, ndele ye oku nepandulo, hapovanhu, ndelenee opuKalunga.
