BAROMA 1

Tumedišo. Paulo o rata go tla Roma. Timelo ya Bantle

1 Paulo mohlanka wa Jesu Kriste, Moapostola wa go bitšwa le go hlaolelwa Ebangedi ya Modimo, 2 yeo a bego a re holofeditše yona ka baporofeta ba gagwe Mangwalong a makgethwa, 3 ona a go bolela Morwa wa gagwe e a tswetšwego e le wa leloko la Dafida ka nama, 4 a bonala e le Morwa wa Modimo ka maatla le ka Moya wa bokgethwa, le ka go tsoga bahung, yena Jesu Kriste mong wa rena. 5 Ke yena a re filego kgaugelo le boapostola, gore mo go bohle bantle go be le ba ba mo kwago ka tumelo, gore a tle a be le leina.

6 Gomme le lena le ba mohuta woo wa babidiwa ba Jesu Kriste.

7 Nna Paulo ke ngwalela lena ba motseng wa Roma, lena baratiwa ba Modimo, lena bakgethiwa ba ba biditšwego bohle.
Kgaugelo a e be le lena le khutšo e tšwago go Modimo Tata wešo le go Morena Jesu Kriste.
8 Ke thoma ka go leboga Modimo wa ka ka Jesu Kriste ge ke bona lena bohle, tumelo ya lena ge e bolelwa mo go fela lefaseng. 9 Gobane hlatse ya ka ke Modimo yo ke mo direlago moyeng wa ka go kwatša Ebangedi ya Morwa wa gagwe; o tseba ge ke sa kgaotše go le gopola, 10 ge ke fela ke kgopela merapelong ya ka, gore ge Modimo a rata, ke be ke bulelwe tsela ya go tla go lena. 11 Gobane ke hlologetšwe go le bona, gore ke le hlallele neo ya Moya, e be go le tiiša.

12 E tlo ba go emelana ka tumelo ya rena, go le ya lena, go le ya ka.
13 Gomme, bana, bešo, ga ke rate go le utela ge e šetše e le gantši ke re ke tla go lena, mme ka šitišwa; ke rata go bona seenywa sa lena, bjalo ka ge ke se bone ditšhabeng tše dingwe. 14 Ke kwa eke ke tlemilwe gore ke hlankele Bagerika le ba mehuta e šele, le ba bohlale le ba ba se nago bohlale.

15 Le bjale, ge e le ka nna, ke phegeletše gore le lena ba Roma ke le botše Ebangedi.
16 Gobane ga ke na maseme ka Ebangedi ya Kriste, hleng e le maatla a Modimo a go phološa mang le mang e a dumelago, go thoma ka Bajuda, go iša pele ka Bagerika.

17 Gomme ka yona Ebangedi go utollwa toko ya Modimo e tšwago tumelong e iša tumelong, bjalo ka ge go ngwadilwe gwa thwe: Moloki o tlo phela ka tumelo.
18 Ge e le bogale bja Modimo bo etšwa legodimong, bo bonala bo okametše bohle ba go se boife Modimo, le batho ba bokgopo, ba ba dibago therešo ka bokgopo. 19 Gobane tše di tsebegago tša Modimo, le go bantle di pepeneneng, ka ge Modimo a di beile pepeneneng mo go bona. 20 Hleng tše di sa bonwego tša gagwe, a lego maatla a neng le neng, le bomodimo bja gagwe, le tšona go tloga tlholong ya legohle, ba ka di hlatha ka go bona ditiro tša gagwe, mme ba hloka tše ba kago latola ka tšona. 21 Gobane, le ge Modimo ba mo tsebile, ga ba ka ba mo godiša ba re ke Modimo, ga ba ka ba mo leboga. Ba išitše megopolo lefeleng, dipelo tša bona tša fifala di šilofetše. 22 Ba šilofetše mola ba bata mahlale.

23 Letago la Modimo Mosefetoge, bakeng sa lona ba beile swantšho sa mothomofetile sa nonyana, le sa phoofolo, le sa digagabi.
24 Modimo a ba a ba lesa ba ya le dikganyogo tša dipelo tša bona, ba tsena ditšhileng ba ikgoboša mebele.

25 O ba bone ba hlanogetše therešo ya Modimo ba ya le maaka, ba ipega go dibopša ba di hlankela, ba hladile Mmopi Moretwa wa mehleng. Amen.
26 Molato ke wona woo ge Modimo a ba gafa ba ya le ditumo tše di lešago dihlong; basadi ba bona ba tlogela modirelo wo ba o bopetšwego, ba tšea modirelo wo ba sa kago ba bopelwa wona;

27 banna ba tla ba tlogela modirelo wo ba o bopetšwego wa go dula le mosadi, ba fišegelana monna a duma monna, ba dira tša dihlong; gomme kotlo ya phapogo ba e bona mebeleng ya bona.
28 Ke ka gobane ba nyaditše Modimo, ba nyatša go mo tseba. Modimo a ba lesa ba ya le kgopolo tša lefela, ba dira tše di sa dirwego, 29 ba tletše bobe bjohle, le bootswa, le bohlola, le megabaru; ba tletše mona le bobolai, le mereba, le maaka, le bomenetša; 30 ke ba ditshele, le bophari; ke manaba a Modimo; ke ba lonya; ke baikgogomoši, baikgantšhi, balogi ba mašula, ba go se kwe batswadi; 31 ga ba na mogopolo le potego; ga ba na botho le kgaugelo. 32 Toko ya Modimo ba a e tseba. Ba tseba le gore badiri ba tše bjalo sa bona ke lehu. Le ge go le bjalo ba di dira, ba thabela ba ba di dirago.

ROMANS 1

1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus.
God chose me to be an apostle, and he appointed me to preach the good news 2 that he promised long ago by what his prophets said in the holy Scriptures.

3-4 This good news is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ! As a human, he was from the family of David. But the Holy Spiritt proved that Jesus is the powerful Son of God, t because he was raised from death.
5 Jesus was kind to me and chose me to be an apostle, t so that people of all nations would obey and have faith.

6 You are some of those people chosen by Jesus Christ.

7 This letter is to all of you in Rome. God loves you and has chosen you to be his very own people.
I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!

A Prayer of Thanks

9 God has seen how I never stop praying for you, while I serve him with all my heart and tell the good news about his Son.
10 In all my prayers, I ask God to make it possible for me to visit you. 11 I want to see you and share with you the same blessings that God's Spirit has given me. Then you will grow stronger in your faith.

12 What I am saying is that we can encourage each other by the faith that is ours.
13  t My friends, I want you to know that I have often planned to come for a visit. But something has always kept me from doing it. I want to win followers to Christ in Rome, as I have done in many other places.

14-15 It doesn't matter if people are civilized and educated, or if they are uncivilized and uneducated. I must tell the good news to everyone. That's why I am eager to visit all of you in Rome.

The Power //of the Good News

17 t The good news tells how God accepts everyone who has faith, but only those who have faith.t It is just as the Scriptures say, “The people God accepts because of their faith will live.”t

Everyone Is Guilty

23 t They don't worship the glorious and eternal God. Instead, they worship idols that are made to look like humans who cannot live forever, and like birds, animals, and reptiles.
24 So God let these people go their own way. They did what they wanted to do, and their filthy thoughts made them do shameful things with their bodies.

25 They gave up the truth about God for a lie, and they worshiped God's creation instead of God, who will be praised forever. Amen.
26 God let them follow their own evil desires. Women no longer wanted to have sex in a natural way, and they did things with each other that were not natural.

27 Men behaved in the same way. They stopped wanting to have sex with women and had strong desires for sex with other men. They did shameful things with each other, and what has happened to them is punishment for their foolish deeds.
28  t Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things. 29 They are evil, wicked, and greedy, as well as mean in every possible way. They want what others have, and they murder, argue, cheat, and are hard to get along with. They gossip,

30 say cruel things about others, and hate God. They are proud, conceited, and boastful, always thinking up new ways to do evil.
These people don't respect their parents. 31 They are stupid, unreliable, and don't have any love or pity for others. 32 They know God has said that anyone who acts this way deserves to die. But they keep on doing evil things, and they even encourage others to do them.