¹In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

¹त्यसैबेला चेलाहरू येशूकहाँ आए र सोधे, “स्वर्गको राज्यमा सबभन्दा महान को होलान्?”

²Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst,

²येशूले एकजना सानो बालकलाई आफूकहाँ बोलाउनुभयो। अनि चेलाहरूको अघि त्यो बालकलाई उभ्याउनु भयो।

³and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

³अनि भन्नुभयो, “म तिमीहरूलाई साँचो भन्दछु। यदि तिमीहरू सानो बालकहरू जस्तै बदलिएनौ भने तिमीहरू स्वर्गको राज्यमा कहिल्यै प्रवेश गर्न सक्नेछैनौ।

⁴ Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

⁴जसले आफूलाई यो सानो बालक झैं आफूलाई नम्र बनाउन सक्छ स्वर्गको राज्यमा उही महान हुन्छ।

⁵ Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

⁵“यदि कुनै मानिसले मेरो नाममा यो बालकलाई ग्रहण गर्छ भने, उसले मलाई ग्रहण गरेको हुनेछ।

⁶ but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

⁶‘यदि एउटा सानो बालकले ममाथि विश्वास राख्छ भने, अनि कसैले त्यो बालकलाई पापमा पार्छ भने त्यस मानिसको लागी अति नराम्रो हुनेछ। त्यसको निम्ति त घाँटीमा एउटा ठूलो जाँतो झुण्डयाएर स्वयंलाई अगाध समुद्रमा डुबाइदिनु असल हुनेछ।

⁷ “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

⁷जुन कारणले मानिसहरूलाई पाप गराउँछ यस संसारमा म ती मानिसहरूको निम्ति दुख मान्छु। यस्तो घटना हुनैपर्छ। तर यस्तो गर्ने मानिसहरूलाई कहिल्यै राम्रो हुनेछैन।

⁸ If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

⁸यदि तिम्रो हात वा खुट्टाले तिमीलाई पाप गर्नलाउँछ भने त्यसलाई काटेर फालिदेऊ। दुइहात वा खुट्टा सहित निरन्तर नरकको आगोमा जल्नुभन्दा त बरू शरीरको एउटा अंग गुमाएर सधैं भरि बाँच्नु असल हो।

⁹ If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna or, Hell of fire.

⁹यदि तिम्रा आँखाले तिमीलाई पापगर्न लाउँछ भने त्यसलाई निकालेर फालिदेऊ। दुइवटा आँखा भएर सधैं भरिलाई नरकको अग्निमा फसिनूभन्दा त एउटा आँखा लिएर जीवनमा प्रवेश गर्नु तिम्रो निम्ति असल हुनेछ।

¹⁰ See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

¹⁰‘होशियार बस। यी साना बालकलाई तुच्छ नठान। म तिमीहरूलाई भन्दछु यी बालकहरूका स्वर्गमा दुतहरू छन्। अनि ती दूतहरू स्वर्गमा मेरा पिताका साथमा छन्।

¹¹ For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

¹¹परमेश्वरको पुत्र हराएकाहरूलाई वचाउन आउनु भएको छ।

¹² “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

¹²‘तिमीहरू के सोच्छौ? यदि कुनै मानिसको 100 वटा भेडाहरू छन्, अनि कुनै एउटा हराएको छ, भने अरू 99 वटा भेडालाई डाँडामा छोडेर ऊ हराएको एउटा भेंडालाई खोज्न जाँदैन? के यो ठीक होइन?

¹³ If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

¹³अनि जब उसले हराएको भेंडा भेट्टाउँछ तब ऊ आफूसित भएका 99 वटा भेंडामा भन्दा त्यो एउटा भेंडा पाएर रमाउनेछ। म तिमीहरूलाई साँचो भन्दछु।

¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

¹⁴त्यसरीनै तिम्र स्वर्गका पिताको इच्छा यो छ कि यी मध्ये कुनै पनि साना बालकहरू नहराओस्।

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

¹⁵“यदि तिम्रा भाइ वा बहीनीले तिम्रो विरुद्धमा केही गल्ती गर्यो भने जब उ एकान्तमा हुन्छ तिमी उसकोमा जाऊ। अनि उसले के गल्ती गरेको छ भनेर सम्झाऊ। यदि त्यो मानिसले तिमीलाई सुन्न चाहे, भने उसलाई तिमीले आफ्नो गरायौ।

¹⁶ But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. Deuteronomy 19:15

¹⁶यदि उसले सुन्न अस्वीकार गर्यो भने अरू एक वा दुइ मानिसहरूलाई ल्याऊ जसमा ती दुइ वा तीन साक्षीहरूले त्यहाँ जे जति कुरा भए ती प्रमाणित गर्नेछन्।

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

¹⁷यदि उसले तिनीहरूका कुरा पनि सुन्न मानेन् भने यस मण्डली समक्ष ल्याऊ। मण्डली समुदायले भनेको कुरा मानेन भने उसलाइ परमेश्वरमा विश्वास नगर्ने र महसूल उठाउने सरह व्यवहार गर।

¹⁸ Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

¹⁸“म तिमीहरूलाई साँचो भन्दछु। जब यो पृथ्वीमा तिमी न्यायको लागि बोल्दछौ, त्यो न्याय परमेश्वरबाट हुनेछ। जब तिमीले यो पृथ्वीमा क्षमाको बचन दिन्छौ, त्यो क्षमा परमेश्वरबाट हुनेछ।

¹⁹ Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

¹⁹“म तिमीलाई भन्छु, “यो पृथ्वीमा केही कुराको बारेमा तिमीहरूमध्ये दुइजना मिलेर सहमत भयौ भने त्यसको निम्ति प्रार्थना गर्नसक्छौ। अनि तिमीहरूले जुन चीजको निम्ति प्रार्थना गर्छौ त्यो मेरा स्वर्गीय पिताबाट प्राप्त गर्नेछौ।

²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

²⁰यो साँचो हो, किनभने दुई वा तीनजनाले म माथि विश्वास गरेर भेला हुन्छन्, भने, म त्यहाँ तिनीहरूका साथमा हुनेछु।”

²¹Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

²¹त्यसपछि पत्रुस येशूकहाँ आएर सोधे, “प्रभु मेरो भाईले मेरो विरोधमा घरिघरि गल्ती गर्दछ, तब मैले कति पटक सम्म उसलाई क्षमा गर्नु? के सातपल्ट सम्म?”

²²Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

²²येशूले जवाफ दिनूभयो, ‘म तिमीहरू सबैलाई भन्दछु, यदि उसले आफ्नो गल्ती गरिरह्रयो भने पनि तिमीले सात गुणा सत्तरी पटकसम्म क्षमा दिनुपर्छ।’

²³ Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

²³“यसकारण स्वर्गको राज्य एउटा राजा जस्तै हो जसले आफ्ना नोकरहरूबाट हिसाब मिलाउने निश्चय गरयो।

²⁴ When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor.

²⁴राजाले हिसाब मिलाउन शुरू गरे। उसको एउटा नोकर हजारौं चाँदीको सिक्काको ऋणी थियो।

²⁵ But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

²⁵त्यो नोकर आफ्नो ऋण तिर्न असमर्थ थियो। राजाले उसलाई, उसकी पत्नी, उसका नानीहरू अनि उसित भएका सबै कुरा बेचेर ऋण चुकाउनलाई आदेश गरे

²⁶ The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

²⁶तर त्यो नोकरले मालिकको खुट्टामा घोप्टो परेर विन्ती गर्यौ, ‘मेरो निम्ति केही धैर्य गरीदिनुहोस्। अनि मलाई लागेको जे जति ऋण म तिर्नेछु।’

²⁷ The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

²⁷यो सुनेर राजालाई नोकरप्रति दया जाग्यो। तब उसले त्यो ऋण तिर्नु पर्दैन भनी भन्यो अनि उसलाई ऋण मुक्त भएर जान दियो।

²⁸ “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, 100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent. and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

²⁸“केही समय पछि, त्यो नोकरले अर्को नोकरलाई भेट्टायो, जसले उसबाट एकसय चाँदीका सिक्क ऋण लिएको थियो। उसले त्यसको घोक्रो अँठयाएर भन्यो, ‘मेरो ऋण तुरन्तै तिरिहाल्।’

²⁹ “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

²⁹“त्यो नोकर घुँडा टेकेर विन्ती गर्न लाग्यो, ‘म माथि दया गर्नुहोस् म तपाईंको सबै ऋण चुक्ता गर्नेछु।’

³⁰ He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

³⁰“तर त्यो पहिले नोकरले धैय गर्न सकेन। त्यसले अर्को नोकरको विरुद्ध न्यायधीश समक्ष नालिश हाल्यो अनि उसलाई जेलमा पुर्याइदियो। ऋण चुक्ता नगरूञ्जेल त्यो जेलमा बस्नु पर्यो।

³¹ So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

³¹अरू सबै नोकरहरूले यो घटना देखे। तिनीहरू दुखी भए र तिनीहरूले आफ्ना मालिकलाई यो घटनाको वृतान्त सुनाइदिए।

³² Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

³²“तब मालिकले नोकरलाई बोलाए र उसलाई भने, ‘तँ दुष्ट नोकर रहेछस्। तैंले म बाट धेरै ऋण लिएको थिईस्। तर तैंले मसित विन्ती गरेको हुनाले मैले त्यो माफ गरिदिए। तर तैंले तेरो ऋणीलाई दया देखाउन सकिनस्।

³³ Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

³³मैंले तँलाईं दया गरे जस्तै तैले पनि त्यसलाई दया गर्नु पर्ने होइन्।’

³⁴ His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

³⁴मालिक खुबै रिसाए र दण्डको दिनको निम्ति त्यस नोकरलाई जेलमा हालिदिए। सम्पूर्ण ऋण चुक्ता नतिरूञ्जेल तिनी त्यो जेलमा नै बस्नुपर्यो।

³⁵ So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

³⁵“राजाले पनि स्वर्गमा भएका मेरा पिताले जे गर्नुहुन्छ त्यही गर्यो यदि तिमीहरू प्रत्येकले आफ्ना भाइ-बहिनीहरूलाई आफ्ना हृदयले क्षमा गरेनौ भने मेरो स्वर्गको पिताले पनि तिमीहरूलाई क्षमा दिनुहुने छैन।”