¹Basi, Myahudi ana nini zaidi kuliko watu wengine? Au kutahiriwa kuna faida gani?

¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

²Naam, iko faida kwa kila upande. Kwanza, Mungu aliwakabidhi Wayahudi ujumbe wake.

²Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

³Lakini itakuwaje iwapo baadhi yao hawakuwa waaminifu? Je, jambo hilo litaondoa uaminifu wa Mungu?

³For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

⁴Hata kidogo! Mungu hubaki mwaminifu daima, ingawaje kila binadamu ni mwongo. Kama Maandiko Matakatifu yasemavyo: "Kila usemapo, maneno yako ni ya haki; na katika hukumu, wewe hushinda."

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

⁵Lakini, ikiwa uovu wetu unathibitisha kwamba Mungu anatenda kwa haki, tutasema nini? Je, tutasema kwamba anakosa haki akituadhibu? (Hapa naongea kibinadamu).

⁵But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

⁶Hata kidogo! Ingekuwa hivyo, Mungu angewezaje kuuhukumu ulimwengu?

⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷Labda utasema: "Ikiwa ukosefu wa uaminifu kwa upande wangu unamdhihirisha Mungu kuwa mwaminifu zaidi na hivyo kumpatia utukufu, basi singepaswa kuhukumiwa kuwa mwenye dhambi!"

⁷But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸Ni sawa na kusema: tufanye maovu ili tupate mema! Ndivyo wengine walivyotukashifu kwa kutushtaki kwamba tumefundisha hivyo. Watahukumiwa wanavyostahili!

⁸and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

⁹Tuseme nini, basi? Je, sisi Wayahudi ni bora zaidi kuliko wengine? Hata kidogo! Kwa maana nimekwisha bainisha hapo mwanzoni kwamba Wayahudi na watu wa mataifa mengine wote wako chini ya utawala wa dhambi.

⁹What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰Kama Maandiko Matakatifu yasemavyo: "Hakuna hata mmoja aliye mwadilifu!

¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹¹Hakuna mtu anayeelewa, wala anayemtafuta Mungu.

¹¹There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

¹²Wote wamepotoka wote wamekosa; hakuna atendaye mema, hakuna hata mmoja.

¹²They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

¹³Makoo yao ni kama kaburi wazi, ndimi zao zimejaa udanganyifu, midomoni mwao mwatoka maneno yenye sumu kama ya nyoka.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴Vinywa vyao vimejaa laana chungu.

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵Miguu yao iko mbioni kumwaga damu,

¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶popote waendapo husababisha maafa na mateso;

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹⁷njia ya amani hawaijui.

¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸Hawajali kabisa kumcha Mungu."

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Tunajua kwamba Sheria huwahusu walio chini ya Sheria hiyo, hata hawawezi kuwa na kisingizio chochote, na ulimwengu wote uko chini ya hukumu ya Mungu.

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

²⁰Maana hakuna binadamu yeyote anayekubaliwa kuwa mwadilifu mbele yake Mungu kwa kuishika Sheria; kazi ya Sheria ni kumwonyesha tu mtu kwamba ametenda dhambi.

²⁰because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

²¹Lakini sasa, njia ya Mungu ya kuwakubali watu kuwa waadilifu imekwisha dhihirishwa, tena bila kutegemea Sheria. Sheria na manabii hushuhudia jambo hili.

²¹But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²²Mungu huwakubali watu kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya imani yao kwa Yesu Kristo; Mungu hufanya hivyo kwa wote wanaoamini; hakuna ubaguzi wowote.

²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

²³Watu wote wametenda dhambi na wametindikiwa utukufu wa Mungu.

²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

²⁴Lakini kwa zawadi ya neema ya Mungu, watu wote hukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya Yesu Kristo anayewakomboa.

²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵Mungu alimtoa Yesu kusudi, kwa damu yake, awe njia ya kuwaondolea watu dhambi zao kwa imani yao kwake. Alifanya hivyo ili apate kuonyesha kwamba yeye ni mwadilifu. Hapo zamani Mungu alikuwa mvumilivu bila kuzijali dhambi za watu;

²⁵whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;

²⁶lakini sasa, wakati huu, anazikabili dhambi za watu apate kuonyesha uadilifu wake. Kwa namna hiyo Mungu mwenyewe huonyesha kwamba yeye ni mwadilifu na kwamba humkubali kuwa mwadilifu mtu yeyote anayemwamini Yesu.

²⁶for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

²⁷Basi, tunaweza kujivunia nini? Hakuna! Kwa nini? Je, kwa sababu ya kutimiza Sheria? La! Bali kwa sababu tunaamini.

²⁷Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

²⁸Maana mtu hukubaliwa kuwa mwadilifu kwa imani, wala si kwa kutimiza matakwa ya Sheria.

²⁸We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

²⁹Au je, Mungu nu Mungu wa Wayahudi tu, ama pia wa watu wa mataifa mengine? Naam, wa mataifa mengine pia.

²⁹Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

³⁰Mungu ni mmoja, naye atawakubali Wayahudi kuwa waadilifu kwa imani yao, na watu wa mataifa mengine pia kwa imani yao.

³⁰if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

³¹Je, tunaitumia imani kuibatilisha Sheria? Hata kidogo; bali tunaipa Sheria thamani yake kamili.

³¹Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.