¹Enyi Wagalatia, mmekuwa wajinga kweli! Ni nani aliyewaloga? Habari juu ya kusulubiwa kwake Yesu Kristo ilielezwa waziwazi mbele ya macho yenu.

¹O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth — before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

²Napenda kujua tu kitu kimoja kutoka kwenu: Je, mlipokea Roho wa Mungu kwa sababu ya kutimiza matakwa ya Sheria ama kwa sababu ya kuisikia na kuiamini Habari Njema?

²this only do I wish to learn from you — by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

³Je, mu wajinga kiasi hicho? Ninyi mlianza yote kwa msaada wa Roho je, mnataka sasa kumaliza kwa nguvu zenu wenyewe?

³so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

⁴Je, mambo yale yote yaliyowapata ninyi yamekuwa bure tu? Haiwezekani!

⁴so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.

⁵Je, Mungu huwajalia Roho na kutenda miujiza kati yenu ati kwa sababu mnatimiza yanayotakiwa na sheria, ama kwa sababu mnasikia Habari Njema na kuiamini?

⁵He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you — by works of law or by the hearing of faith [is it]?

⁶Chukueni kwa mfano habari za Abrahamu: yeye alimwamini Mungu, naye Mungu akamkubali kuwa mwadilifu.

⁶according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him — to righteousness;

⁷Sasa basi jueni kwamba watu wenye kumwamini ndio walio watoto halisi wa Abrahamu.

⁷know ye, then, that those of faith — these are sons of Abraham,

⁸Maandiko Matakatifu yalionyesha kabla kwamba Mungu atawakubali watu wa mataifa kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya imani. Hivyo Maandiko Matakatifu yalitangulia kumtangazia Abrahamu Habari Njema: "Katika wewe mataifa yote yatabarikiwa."

⁸and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham —

⁹Basi, wale walio na imani wanabarikiwa pamoja na Abrahamu aliyeamini.

⁹`Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;` so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

¹⁰Lakini wote wanaotegemea tu kutimiza yanayotakiwa na Sheria, wako chini ya laana. Maana, Maandiko Matakatifu yasema: "Yeyote asiyeshika na kutimiza yote yaliyoandikwa katika kitabu cha Sheria, yuko chini ya laana."

¹⁰for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law — to do them,`

¹¹Ni dhahiri kwamba Sheria haiwezi kumfanya mtu akubaliwe kuwa mwadilifu; maana Maandiko Matakatifu yasema: "Mwadilifu kwa imani ataishi."

¹¹and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;`

¹²Lakini Sheria haitegemei imani, ila Maandiko yasema: "Mwenye kutimiza yanayotakiwa na Sheria ataishi."

¹²and the law is not by faith, but — `The man who did them shall live in them.`

¹³Kristo alitukomboa kutoka katika laana ya Sheria kwa kujitwalia laana hiyo kwa ajili yetu; maana Maandiko yanasema: "Yeyote aliyetundikwa msalabani amelaaniwa."

¹³Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,`

¹⁴Jambo hili lilifanyika kusudi ile baraka aliyopewa Abrahamu iwashukie watu wa mataifa mengine kwa njia ya Kristo, na ili kwa imani, tumpokee yule Roho ambaye Mungu alituahidia.

¹⁴that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

¹⁵Ndugu, nitawapeni mfano kutoka maisha yetu ya kila siku. Fikirini juu ya mkataba kati ya watu wawili. Mkataba ukisha fanyika na kutiwa sahihi hapana mtu anayeuweka kando au kuuongezea kitu.

¹⁵Brethren, as a man I say [it], even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

¹⁶Basi, Abrahamu alipewa ahadi, yeye pamoja na mzawa wake. Maandiko hayasemi: "Na wazawa wake," yaani wengi, bali yasema, "Na mzawa wake," yaani mmoja, naye ndiye Kristo.

¹⁶and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,` as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,` which is Christ;

¹⁷Ninachotaka kusema ni hiki: Mungu alifanya agano lake akalithibitisha; Sheria ambayo ilitokea miaka mia nne na thelathini baadaye, haiwezi kulitangua hilo agano wala kuibatilisha hiyo ahadi.

¹⁷and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

¹⁸Maana, kama urithi ya Mungu inategemea Sheria, basi, haiwezi kutegemea tena ahadi ya Mungu. Kumbe, lakini Mungu alimkirimia Abrahamu kwa sababu aliahidi.

¹⁸for if by law [be] the inheritance, [it is] no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].

¹⁹Ya nini basi, Sheria? Iliongezwa hapo ili kuonyesha uhalifu ni kitu gani, mpaka atakapokuja yule mzawa wa Abrahamu aliyepewa ile ahadi. Sheria ililetwa na malaika kwa mkono wa mpatanishi.

¹⁹Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator —

²⁰Ama hakika, mpatanishi hahitajiwi ikiwa jambo lenyewe lamhusu mtu mmoja; na Mungu ni mmoja.

²⁰and the mediator is not of one, and God is one —

²¹Je, Sheria inapingana na ahadi za Mungu? Hata kidogo! Maana, kama kungalitolewa sheria ambayo ingeweza kuwapa watu uzima, basi, tungeweza kukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya Sheria.

²¹the law, then, [is] against the promises of God? — let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

²²Lakini sivyo; Maandiko Matakatifu yamekwisha sema kwamba ulimwengu wote upo chini ya utawala wa dhambi; na hivyo, kwa kumwamini Yesu Kristo, wenye kuamini watimiziwe ile ahadi.

²²but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

²³Kabla ya kujaliwa imani, Sheria ilitufanya wafungwa mpaka imani hiyo iliyokuwa inakuja ifunuliwe.

²³And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

²⁴Basi, hiyo Sheria ilikuwa kama mlezi wetu mpaka alipokuja Kristo, ili kwa njia ya imani, tukubaliwe kuwa waadilifu.

²⁴so that the law became our child-conductor — to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

²⁵Tangu kufika kwa hiyo imani, Sheria si mlezi wetu tena.

²⁵and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

²⁶Kwa njia ya imani, ninyi nyote mmekuwa watoto wa Mungu katika kuungana na Kristo.

²⁶for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

²⁷Ninyi nyote mliobatizwa mkaungana na Kristo ni kama vile mmemvaa Kristo.

²⁷for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

²⁸Hivyo, hakuna tena tofauti kati ya Myahudi na Mgiriki, mtumwa na mtu huru, mwanamume na mwanamke. Nyote ni kitu kimoja katika kuungana na Kristo Yesu.

²⁸there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

²⁹Ikiwa ninyi ni wa Kristo, basi ni wazawa wa Abrahamu, na mtapokea yale aliyoahidi Mungu.

²⁹and if ye [are] of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise — heirs.