1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Paulo ne batumwa bamwe
1 Shule kwe makole ali gumi lina manna (14), ndakayenda kakale ku Jerusalema ndina Bhanabhasi na Tito. 2 Ndakayenda, ngobe Ndzimu wakandizumbunulila kuti ndiyendeko. Ndakatjenesela batungamili pakasumbikala ngekwe ndebo mbuya yandinosumikilila Bezwitjaba. Ndakathama saikoko ngobe ndakabe ndisingade kuti nshingo wangu wandakashinga ne wandinoshinga ngwenu usibe suli. 3 Nanga Tito iye wandakabe ndi naye, aazokombeledzwa kuthumbigwa, nenguba ali N'giriki. 4 Ikoku kwakashingikala ngobe zwikamu zwe manyepkhwa zwakangina mu gubungano ledu nge butjakwani, bali shodzi, kuti babone kusununguka kwatinako muna Kirisiti Jesu. Bakabe beshaka kutithama balanda, 5 koga kuti ndizo malebeswa e Ndebo mbuya abiganyike mu muli, atizodumana nabo.
6 Ngono ibabo bakabe bekaiwa bali bapezhugwi, tjabakabe bali itjo aatjitodwa tjimwe kundili, Ndzimu auna shalaulo, bathu ibabo akuna tjimwe tjabakapapha mundili. 7 Koga mu bumo gwa ikoku bakabona kuti Ndzimu wakandipa nshingo we kusumikila ndebo mbuya kuna basakathumba koga sekwa kwakapiwa Pita nshingo we kusumikila ndebo mbuya kuna bakathumbigwa, 8 ngobe Ndzimu sekwa wakatungamila Pita mu nshingo uwe se ntumwa kuna bakathumbigwa wakanditungamilabo mu nshingo wangu we butumwa kuna Bezwitjaba.
9 Jakubo, na Pita na Johani, ibabo bakabe betogwa bali nshongoshongo wakabhata mbadu, bakati babona ngoni dzandakathamigwa nge Ndzimu, bakatibhata maboko, imi na Bhanabhasi kuli tjilakidzo tjekuti tibang'ompela, iswi tishinge pakati kwe Bezwitjaba, ngono ibo bashinge pakati kwe bakathumbigwa. 10 Tjabakakumbila koga hwuti tikumbule bashayi, itjo tjithu tjandakabe nditukutilila tjishinga.
Paulo unotjemela Pita ku Antiyoki
11 Koga Pita wakati azha ku Antiyoki, ha n'nyanyayidza pa mesho e mmwe ne mmwe ngobe wakabe etjinya. 12 Kwakati bathu bakatumwa ndi Jakubo basathu bakaswika ikoko, Pita wakabe eja ne Bezwitjaba. Koga bathu ibabo bakati batjizha, kazwithubukanya ne Bezwitjaba kasitjaje nabo, ngobe wakabe etja goko lebakathumbigwa. 13 Ngono bamwe Bajuta bakakuzhuka mu bupitipiti gwa Pita; ngono na Bhanabhasi kalashiwa nge kutobelela bupitipiti gwabo. 14 Ndakati ndibona kuti abatoshinga bali mu ndongoloso ye malebeswa e ndebo mbuya, ati kuna Pita mbeli kwabo bose, “Iwe u Njuta, koga unotjila se we zwitjaba. Ungakombeledza Bezwitjaba kutjila se Bajuta tjini wali?”
15 Iswi ti Bajuta ngozwagwa, ate tili Bezwitjaba batjinyi, 16 toziba kuti nthu atolulwamisiwa ngolondolodza nlayo, unolulwamisiwa ngogalamoyo muna Jesu Kirisiti. Ndizo naswibo takagalamoyo muna Kirisiti Jesu, kuti tilulwamisiwe ngogalamoyo muna Kirisiti, kusi nge kulondolodza tjinoshakwa nge nlayo. Ngolondolodza tjinoshakwa nge nlayo akuna ungalulwamisiwa.
17 Ndizo ha tishaka kululwamisiwa muna Kirisiti, koga tiwang'wabo tili batjinyi, apa ikoku kodwa kuti Kirisiti unokudza jinyo kene? Dumbu akuzojalo! 18 Ha ndibaka kakale tjandakakolomola, ipapo ndowobe ndilakidza kuti ndotjuluka nlayo. 19 Ngekwe nlayo ndakafa, ndibulawa nge nlayo, kuti nditjilile Ndzimu. 20 Ndakabambugwa na Kirisiti, ndizo akutji imi ndinotjila, koga ndi Kirisiti unotjila mundili. Butjilo gwandinotjila ngwenu mu nyama, ndotjila nge kugalamoyo mu Nkololo we Ndzimu, iye wakandida, kakale wakandifila. 21 Anditolamba ngoni dze Ndzimu, koga ha nthu elulwamisiwa mbeli kwe Ndzimu nge nlayo, kodwa kuti Kirisiti wakafila suli.