Oukutuke woukriste
1 Kristus we tu kutura kutja, tjiri, tu rire ovakutuke! Zikameye moukutuke mbwi, nu amu riyandjere okurira ovakarere rukwao!
2 Tareye, ami, Paulus, me mu raere kutja tji mwe riyandjere okusukarekwa, okutja Kristus ke notjiṋa na eṋe oparukaze. 3 Ami me mu rongo rukwao nomasa kutja auhe ngu me riyandjere omuini okusukarekwa, eye ma sokuṱakamisa Omatwako aehe wa Moses. 4 Eṋe mba mbu mu vanga okuvarwa otja ovasemba komurungu wa Ndjambi mena rokuṱakamisa Omatwako wa Moses mwe ri pora oveni ku Kristus, nu mwa yandja etambo kotjari tja Ndjambi. 5 Nungwari eṱe omaundjiro wetu owokutja Ndjambi e tu vare otja ovasemba komurungu we mena rongamburiro; nu ihi otji tji ri otjiṋa tji matu undju momasa wOmbepo ya Ndjambi, ndji mai ungura indu tji twa kambura. 6 Orondu mu Kristus Jesus kape notjiungura kutja omundu wa sukara poo ka sukarere. Ihi tji tji ri otjinanḓengu porwatjo oyo ndji ongamburiro, ndji ungura nomasa morusuvero.
7 Eṋe iyamu ka wondja nawa komurungu. Owaṋi ngwe mu tjaera okukara nonḓuviro kouatjiri? 8 Owaṋi ngwe mu popa? Ka Ndjambi ngwe mu popa; eye we mu isanena kutja mu kare nonḓuviro. 9 Ripureye nawa: “Osurise onḓiṱi i surisa otjisema atjihe.” 10 Oruwano rwetu na Muhona maru ndji zeuparisa kutja eṋe mu ripura otja ami tji mbi ripura. Nungwari omundu ngamwa auhe ngwe mu pukisa, ma verwa i Ndjambi.
11 Nungwari ami, vakwetu, ndovazu me panḓere pokuzuvarisa kutja omasukarekero ohepero, okutjavi tji mbi tatumisiwa nga mba? Andakuzu ouatjiri, okutja omaputarisiro wotjikoroise katjaye kara po. 12 Ami me zeri kutja ovandu mbe eta ezunganeno ndi mokati keṋu pa sana apehe andakuzu mave ripindi oveni okumana!
13 Neṋe, vakwetu, mwa isanenwa okukuturwa. Amu nanisa oukutuke mbwi mokutjita ouvi. Nungwari karerasaneye morusuvero. 14 Orondu Omatwako aehe ye urisiwa metwako rimwe ndi: “Suvera omukweṋu otja tji we risuvera omuini.” 15 Nungwari tji mamu rumatasana nokunyondororasana otja ovipuka vyokuti, ṱakamiseye kutja kombunda amu ha kaṋiṋasana okumana.
Ombepo nOngarero youndu
16 Otjiṋa tji me hee otjo hi: Yandjereye mOmbepo ya Ndjambi arire ndje mu hongorere momahupiro weṋu, notji mu hi nakukovisa ozonḓuma zongaro youndu. 17 Orondu imbi ongaro youndu mbi i nanukira, vi pirukira imbi Ombepo mbi i vanga; nu imbi Ombepo mbi i nanukira, vi pirukira imbi ongaro youndu mbi i vanga. Oviṋa vivari mbi ovinavita kumwe, notji mu hi nokusora okutjita imbi mbi mu vanga. 18 Nungwari tji mamu hongorerwa i Ombepo, okutja kamu ri kehi yOmatwako.
19 Nu oviungura vyongaro youndu ovyo vi tjiukwa nawa, novyo mbi: Oruvakiro, nouhakohoke, nehambaneno rombonḓi; 20 okurikotamena kovisenginina, oundjai, okukarasana ovanavita, onyengo, ozombata, omazenge, oviposa, omahaṋikiro nohaṋi, 21 eruru, okupurukisiwa i omanuwa omazeu, evyaro noviṋa avihe ohamukwao na imbyo. Ami me mu rongo nambano otja tjinga ambe mu rongere rukuru: Imba mbe tjita oviṋa mbi kamaave rumata ouhona wa Ndjambi.
22 Nungwari ovihape vyOmbepo ovyo mbi: Orusuvero, enyando, ohange, omuretima, oupore, omutima omuwa, ouṱakame, 23 omerisusuparisiro nomeritjaerero. Omatwako kaye kuramene oviṋa otja imbi momurungu. 24 Imba mbe ri ova Kristus Jesus va papera ongaro yawo youndu puna ozonḓuma nozonḓero zayo azehe kotjikoroise. 25 Ndjambi we tu pa omuinyo omupe mOmbepo ye: NOmbepo ndji i sokuturyangisa mongaro ndji. 26 Atu he rihivi, atu ha pindikisasana nu atu ha ṱasana eruru.
Preserve Your Freedom
1 Freedom is what we have—Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all. 3 Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law. 4 Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace. 5 As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith. 6 For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
7 You were doing so well! Who made you stop obeying the truth? How did he persuade you? 8 It was not done by God, who calls you. 9 “It takes only a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise,” as they say. 10 But I still feel confident about you. Our life in union with the Lord makes me confident that you will not take a different view and that whoever is upsetting you will be punished by God.
11 But as for me, my friends, if I continue to preach that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were true, then my preaching about the cross of Christ would cause no trouble. 12 I wish that the people who are upsetting you would go all the way; let them go on and castrate themselves!
13 As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another. 14 For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” 15 But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.
The Spirit and Human Nature
16 What I say is this: let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. 17 For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do. 18 If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the Law.
19 What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy, and indecent actions; 20 in worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups; 21 they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.
22 But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 humility, and self-control. There is no law against such things as these. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires. 25 The Spirit has given us life; he must also control our lives. 26 We must not be proud or irritate one another or be jealous of one another.
