¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins --

¹Ninyi mlikuwa mmekufa kwa sababu ya makosa na dhambi zenu.

²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

²Wakati ule mliishi kufuatana na mtindo mbaya wa ulimwengu huu, mkawa mnamtii mtawala wa pepo wenye nguvu wa anga, pepo ambao huwatawala sasa watu wasiomtii Mungu.

³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

³Na hata sisi sote tulikuwa kama wao; tuliishi kufuatana na tamaa zetu za kidunia na kufanya tu mambo yale yaliyoipendeza miili na akili zetu. Kidunia, sisi kama vile pia wao, tulistahili ghadhabu ya Mungu.

⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

⁴Lakini Mungu ni mwenye huruma nyingi. Alitupenda kwa mapendo yasiyopimika,

⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

⁵hata, ingawa tulikuwa tumekufa kwa sababu ya dhambi, alitufanya hai pamoja na Kristo. Kwa neema ya Mungu ninyi mmeokolewa.

⁶and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

⁶Kwa kuungana na Kristo Yesu, Mungu alitufufua pamoja naye, tukatawale pamoja naye mbinguni.

⁷that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

⁷Ndivyo alivyopenda kuonyesha kwa watu wa nyakati za baadaye, ukuu wa neema yake aliyotujalia kwa ukarimu katika kuungana kwetu na Kristo Yesu.

⁸For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

⁸Maana, kwa neema ya Mungu mmekombolewa kwa njia ya imani. Jambo hili si matokeo ya juhudi zenu, bali ni zawadi ya Mungu.

⁹not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.

⁹Wala halitokani na matendo yenu wenyewe, asije mtu akajivunia kitu.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

¹⁰Sisi ni viumbe vyake Mungu, na kwa kuungana na Kristo Yesu, alituumba kwa ajili ya kuishi maisha ya matendo mema aliyotutayarishia tuyatende.

¹¹Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;

¹¹Ninyi mlio kwa asili watu wa mataifa mengine--mnaoitwa, "wasiotahiriwa" na Wayahudi ambao hujiita, "Waliotahiriwa," (kwa sababu ya kile wanachoifanyia miili yao) --kumbukeni mlivyokuwa zamani.

¹²that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

¹²Wakati ule ninyi mlikuwa bila Kristo; mlikuwa nje ya jamii ya Israeli; mlikuwa wageni na hamkuwa na sehemu yoyote katika lile agano la zile ahadi. Mlikuwa bila matumaini Mungu hapa duniani.

¹³but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

¹³Lakini sasa, kwa kuungana na Kristo Yesu, ninyi ambao hapo awali mlikuwa mbali, mmekaribishwa kwa njia ya damu yake Kristo.

¹⁴For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,

¹⁴Maana Kristo mwenyewe ametuletea amani kwa kuwafanya Wayahudi na watu wa mataifa mengine kuwa jamii moja. Kwa mwili wake yeye mwenyewe aliubomoa ule ukuta uliowatenganisha na kuwafanya maadui.

¹⁵having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

¹⁵Aliiondoa ile Sheria ya Wayahudi pamoja na amri zake na kanuni zake, ili kutokana na jamii hizo mbili aumbe jamii moja mpya katika umoja naye na hivyo kuleta amani.

¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

¹⁶Kwa mwili wake, Kristo aliuangamiza uadui wao; kwa msalaba wake aliziunganisha jamii hizo kuwa moja na kuzipatanisha na Mungu.

¹⁷and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to those [who were] nigh.

¹⁷Basi, Kristo alikuja akahubiri Habari Njema ya amani kwenu ninyi watu wa mataifa mengine mliokuwa mbali na Mungu, na pia kwa Wayahudi ambao walikuwa karibu na Mungu.

¹⁸For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁸Hivyo, kwa njia yake, sisi sote, Wayahudi na watu wa mataifa mengine, tunaweza kumwendea Baba katika Roho mmoja.

¹⁹So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

¹⁹Basi, ninyi si wageni tena, wala si watu wa nje; ninyi ni raia pamoja na watu wa Mungu, na ni watu wa jamaa ya Mungu.

²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,

²⁰Mmejengwa juu ya msingi uliowekwa na mitume na manabii, naye Kristo mwenyewe ndiye jiwe kuu la msingi.

²¹in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;

²¹Yeye ndiye mwenye kulitengeneza jengo lote na kulikuza hata liwe hekalu takatifu kwa ajili ya B wana.

²²in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of God in [the] Spirit.

²²Katika kuungana naye, ninyi pia mnajengwa pamoja na wote wengine, muwe makao ya Mungu kwa njia ya Roho wake.