Ubuntu Busendereye Binyuze mu Gutanga ku Mutima
Gukoranya inkunga byatangiye umwaka ushize biracyari ntarangira. Pawulo yanga kubitegeka. Yereka Abanyamakedoniya, abakene kandi bababaye, batanze barengeje ubushobozi bwabo ku bw'ubuntu bwa Data wa twese, asaba gusa ko hagira ubutabera hagati y'amatorero, maze yohereza Tito n'abahamya kugira ngo nta muntu ubaza ku mafaranga.
8 1Bavandimwe, turifuza ko mumenya iby'ubuntu bwa Data wa twese amatorero yo mu ntara ya Masedoniya yahawe. 2Nubwo bageragejwe n'amakuba akomeye, ibyishimo byabo byinshi n'ubukene bwabo bukabije byasendereye mu gutanga kw'ubuntu kwinshi. 3Ndahamya ko batanze uko bashoboye, ndetse no kurenza, babikuye ku mutima rwose. 4Baratwinginga cyane, basaba ubuntu n'uruhare mu gukorera intore z'Imana. 5Ntabwo byagenze uko twibwiraga: babanje kwiyegurira Nyagasani, hanyuma batwiyegurira, nk'uko ubushake bwa Data wa twese bwari. 6Nuko twinginga Tito ngo asozereze uyu murimo w'ubuntu muri mwe, nk'uko yari yatangiye. 7Ariko nk'uko mukomeye muri byose—mu kwizera, no mu kuvuga, no mu bumenyi, no mu bwitange bwose, no mu rukundo tubafitiye—mukomere namwe muri uyu murimo w'ubuntu. 8Ibi ntabwo ari itegeko—ahubwo ngerageza kureba ukuri kw'urukundo rwanyu, mbigereranyije n'ubwitange bw'abandi. 9Muzi ubuntu bwa Nyagasani wacu Yezu Kristo: nubwo yari umukire, yabaye umukene ku bwanyu, kugira ngo ubukene bwe bubahindure abakire. 10Dore uko mbona: bibagirira akamaro, mwebwe abatangiye umwaka ushize atari kubikora gusa ahubwo no kubyifuza. 11None rero musozereze no kubikora, kugira ngo ishyaka ryo kubyifuza rijyane no kubisohoza mu byo mufite. 12Iyo hari ishyaka, ituro ryemerwa hakurikijwe ibyo umuntu afite, atari ibyo abura. 13Ntabwo nshaka kuvuga ngo abandi boroherwe mwebwe mukaremererwa, ahubwo ngo habe uburinganire. 14Muri iki gihe ibyasagutse byanyu bikemure ibyo bakeneye, kugira ngo n'ibyasagutse byabo bizakemure ibyo mukeneye, hagire uburinganire. 15Nk'uko byanditswe ngo: “Uwatoraguye byinshi ntiyagira ibyasagutse, n'uwatoraguye bike nta cyo yabuze.”
Tito Yoherejwe Afite Ubwitange
16Dushimire Data wa twese, washyize mu mutima wa Tito ubwitange bungana n'ubwo mbafitiye. 17Ntabwo yakiriye gusa ko twamwinginze, ahubwo kubera ko yari afite ishyaka cyane, araza iwanyu ku bushake bwe bwite. 18Hamwe na we tumwoherezanya umuvandimwe ushimwa n'amatorero yose kubera umurimo we mu Butumwa bwiza. 19Si ibyo gusa—amatorero kandi yaramutoranyije ngo ajyane natwe mu rugendo, muri iyi mpano y'ubuntu dusohoza, kugira ngo Nyagasani ubwe ahimbazwe, no kugaragaza ishyaka ryacu. 20Tubigenza dutyo kugira ngo hatagira umuntu udunenga kubera iyi mpano y'ubuntu dukoresha, 21kuko dushaka ibikwiye, atari imbere ya Nyagasani gusa ahubwo n'imbere y'abantu. 22Tumoherezanya na bo umuvandimwe wacu, wageragejwe incuro nyinshi tukamusanga afite ishyaka muri byinshi, none akaba arushijeho kugira ishyaka, kubera icyizere kinini afite muri mwe. 23Naho Tito: ni mugenzi wanjye kandi ni umukozi mugenzi wanjye ku bwanyu. Naho abavandimwe bacu: ni intumwa z'amatorero, n'icyubahiro cya Kristo. 24Nuko rero mugaragaze, imbere y'amatorero, ikimenyetso cy'urukundo rwanyu n'icyo twirata muri mwe.