Omakumaido
1 Ndele natango, ovamwatate, ohatu mu ilikana nohatu mu kumaida mOmwene Jesus, mu kule muyo natango, nhumbi mu nokweenda nokukala mwa wapalela Kalunga, ngaashi hamu ende paife. 2 Osheshi omalombwelo aa twe mu pa mOmwene Jesus omu a shii nokuli. 3 Osheshi ehalo laKalunga oleli: eliyapulo leni, mu yepe oluhaelo; 4 keshe ou womokati keni a kale e shii kudiinina omukainhu waye omouyapuki nomokufimaneka, 5 hamolwisho louhalu, ngaashi ovapaani ava inava shiiva Kalunga; 6 ndele kuha kale ou ta nyeka omukwao note mu etele oshiponga nande omoshinima shimwe, osheshi Omwene Oye omuhandukili waaveshe ava, ngaashi twe mu lombwela nale notwe mu hepaululila. 7 Osheshi Kalunga ine tu ifanena enyato, ndele ouyapuki. 8 Onghee hano ou ha dini ei, oye iha dini omunhu, ndelenee oKalunga mwene, ou a yandja Omhepo yaye Iyapuki kufye.
9 Ohole yokuholafana, ovamwatate, ihamu pumbwa oku i shangelwa, osheshi onye vene mwa longwa kuKalunga okuholafana, 10 nohamu shi ningile yo ovamwaxo aveshe vomuMakedonia ashishe. Ndelenee ohatu mu kumaida, ovamwatate, mu kule muyo natango, 11 ndele mu tale efimano leni nokutya, olo okukala mengungumano nokulonga oilonga yeni hamu longifa omake eni vene, ngaashi twe mu lombwela, 12 opo mu ende mu neenghedi moipafi yaava vopondje ndele inamu pumbwa sha.
Enyumuko lomovafi Ealuko lOmwene
13 Ndelenee ovamwatate, fye inatu hala mu kale muhe shi shii, ava va kofa po (oonakufya) nhumbi ve li, muhe va nyikile oluhodi ngaashi venya vamwe vehe neteelelo. 14 Osheshi fye ngeenge hatu itavele Jesus a fya, ndele a nyumuka, opo nee Kalunga ota ka eta pamwe naye ovo va kofa mo muJesus.
15 Osheshi ohatu mu lombwele, ngaashi ondjovo yOmwene nokutya, fye ava hatu fyaala po tu nomwenyo fiyo okealuko lOmwene, ihatu tetekelele ava va kofa po. 16 Osheshi Omwene Ye mwene ota ka londoloka keulu neingido lelombwelo nondaka yomweengeli omukulunhu nekweno lenghuma laKalunga, ovafi ovo va fila muKristus, otava ka nyumuka tete, 17 opo nee nafye yo, ovanamwenyo ava twa fyaala po, ohatu ka vakulwa po shimwe pamwe naava moilemo, tu ka shakeneke Omwene kombadambada, ndele hatu ka kala alushe pOmwene. 18 Hano lihekelekeni neendjovo edi.
A Life That Pleases God
1 Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more. 2 For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality. 4 Each of you should know how to live with your wife in a holy and honorable way, 5 not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God. 6 In this matter, then, none of you should do wrong to other Christians or take advantage of them. We have told you this before, and we strongly warned you that the Lord will punish those who do that. 7 God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness. 8 So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9 There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another. 10 And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more. 11 Make it your aim to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to earn your own living, just as we told you before. 12 In this way you will win the respect of those who are not believers, and you will not have to depend on anyone for what you need.
The Lord's Coming
13 Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.
15 What we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died. 16 There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; 17 then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 So then, encourage one another with these words.
