Tukumbireye
1 Orupa orusenina me vanga okutja nai: Vakwetu, tu kumbireye, kutja embo ra Muhona ri handjauke tjimanga nu akuhe ri yakurwe otja tji ra yakurwa i eṋe. 2 Wina kumbeye kutja Ndjambi e tu kuture kovandu ovavi novarunde; orondu kavandu avehe mbe ri ovakambure.
3 Nungwari Muhona eye omuṱakame; eye me mu zeuparisa nu me mutjevere ku ingwi Omunauvi. 4 Neṱe Muhona wa tjiti kutja tu kare nonḓakameno mu eṋe yokutja mamu tjiti nu mamu panḓere pokutjita imbi mbi matu mu raere.
5 Muhona nga tjite kutja eṋe mu zuve nawa orusuvero rwa Ndjambi nonḓaro orure ya Kristus.
Tu sokuungura
6 Vakwetu, mena ra Muhona wetu Jesus Kristus eṱe matu mu rakiza kutja mu humburuke kokure novakambure ovakweṋu avehe mbe nongarero yotjirweyo nu mbe ha kongorere omaraerero ngu twe ve pa. 7 Eṋe oveni mamu tjiwa nawa kutja mu sokuhorera ku eṱe. Tji twa ri puna eṋe, katwa ri notjirweyo. 8 Eṱe katu na pu twa ningirire ombatero komundu nokuhinokusuta. Nungwari twa ungura natu kondjo omutenya nouṱuku kutja atu ha yandja ouzeu ku ngamwa auhe weṋu. 9 Kakutja eṱe katwa ri nousemba okuningira ombatero ku eṋe, nungwari twa vanga okurira otjihorera ku eṋe ku mwa sokuhorera. 10 Nu tji twa ri puna eṋe, twe mu raera ongahukiro atu tja: “Ngu ha vanga okuungura wina a ha ri ko!”
11 Eṱe matu tja nai tjinga amatu zuu kutja mokati keṋu mu novandu mbe nongarero yotjirweyo, nu mbe hi na tji ve ungura posi yaingwi okuritwa moviṋa vyovandu varwe. 12 Novandu mbe ri nai matu ve rakiza nokuveronga mena ra Muhona Jesus Kristus kutja ve ungure oviungura vyawo nu komuhingo mbwi ve mune ovikurya vyawo oveni.
13 Nungwari, vakwetu, amu isa okutjita ouwa. 14 Nu tji pe nomundu ngu hi nonḓuviro komarakiza wetu, otja tji twe mu pa morutuu ndwi, amu wana nomundu ngo, kokutja eye a ṱohoṋi. 15 Nungwari, vakwetu, amu mu zara otja omunavita na eṋe, posi yokutja mu rongeye otja omukweṋu.
Omambo omasenina
16 Nu Muhona omuini ngu yandja ohange, nge mu pe ohange oruveze aruhe na momuhingo auhe. Muhona nga kare na eṋe amuhe!
17 Me tjanga neke randje omuini. Ozombinika, owami Paulus. Nami otji me twa otjiraisiro tjeke randje komaandero worutuu aruhe. Ami otji mbi tjanga nai.
18 Otjari tja Muhona wetu Jesus Kristus ngatji kare na eṋe omauhe!
Pray for Us
1 Finally, our friends, please pray for us. This will help the message about the Lord to spread quickly, and others will respect it, just as you do. 2 Pray that we may be kept safe from worthless and evil people. After all, not everyone has faith. 3 But the Lord can be trusted to make you strong and protect you from harm. 4 He has made us sure that you are obeying what we taught you and that you will keep on obeying. 5 I pray that the Lord will guide you to be as loving as God and as patient as Christ.
Warnings against Laziness
6 My dear friends, in the name of the Lord Jesus, I beg you not to have anything to do with any of your people who loaf around and refuse to obey the instructions we gave you. 7 You surely know that you should follow our example. We didn't waste our time loafing, 8 and we didn't accept food from anyone without paying for it. We didn't want to be a burden to any of you, so night and day we worked as hard as we could.
9 We had the right not to work, but we wanted to set an example for you. 10 We also gave you this rule: If you don't work, you don't eat. 11 Now we learn that some of you just loaf around and won't do any work, except the work of a busybody. 12 So, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, we ask and beg these people to settle down and start working for a living. 13 Dear friends, you must never become tired of doing right.
14 Be on your guard against any followers who refuse to obey what we have written in this letter. Put them to shame by not having anything to do with them. 15 Don't consider them your enemies. Instead, speak kindly to them as you would to any other follower.
Final Prayer
16 I pray that the Lord, who gives peace, will always bless you with peace. May the Lord be with all of you.
17 I always sign my letters as I am now doing: PAUL.
18 I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to all of you.
