RUM. 8
Uzima katika Roho
1 Sasa, basi, hakuna hukumu ya adhabu juu yao walio katika Kristo Yesu. 2 tKwa sababu sheria ya Roho wa uzima ule ulio katika Kristo Yesu imeniacha huru, mbali na sheria ya dhambi na mauti. 3 tMaana yale yasiyowezekana kwa sheria, kwa vile ilivyokuwa dhaifu kwa sababu ya mwili, Mungu, kwa kumtuma Mwanawe mwenyewe katika mfano wa mwili ulio wa dhambi, na kwa sababu ya dhambi, aliihukumu dhambi katika mwili; 4 tili maagizo ya torati yatimizwe ndani yetu sisi, tusioenenda kwa kufuata mambo ya mwili, bali mambo ya roho. 5 Kwa maana wale waufuatao mwili huyafikiri mambo ya mwili; bali wale waifuatao roho huyafikiri mambo ya roho. 6 tKwa kuwa nia ya mwili ni mauti; bali nia ya roho ni uzima na amani. 7 tKwa kuwa ile nia ya mwili ni uadui juu ya Mungu, kwa maana haitii sheria ya Mungu, wala haiwezi kuitii. 8 Wale waufuatao mwili hawawezi kumpendeza Mungu. 9 tLakini ikiwa Roho wa Mungu anakaa ndani yenu, ninyi hamwufuati mwili; bali mwaifuata roho. Lakini mtu awaye yote asipokuwa na Roho wa Kristo, huyo si wake. 10 tNa Kristo akiwa ndani yenu, mwili wenu umekufa kwa sababu ya dhambi; bali roho yenu i hai, kwa sababu ya haki.
11 tLakini, ikiwa Roho yake yeye aliyemfufua Yesu katika wafu anakaa ndani yenu, yeye aliyemfufua Kristo Yesu katika wafu ataihuisha na miili yenu iliyo katika hali ya kufa, kwa Roho wake anayekaa ndani yenu.
12 tBasi, kama ni hivyo, ndugu, tu wadeni, si wa mwili tuishi kwa kufuata mambo ya mwili, 13 tkwa maana kama tukiishi kwa kufuata mambo ya mwili, mwataka kufa; bali kama mkiyafisha matendo ya mwili kwa Roho, mtaishi. 14 Kwa kuwa wote wanaoongozwa na Roho wa Mungu, hao ndio wana wa Mungu. 15 ttKwa kuwa hamkupokea tena roho wa utumwa iletayo hofu; bali mlipokea roho ya kufanywa wana, ambayo kwa hiyo twalia, Aba, yaani, Baba. 16 tRoho mwenyewe hushuhudia pamoja na roho zetu, ya kuwa sisi tu watoto wa Mungu;
17 tna kama tu watoto, basi, tu warithi; warithi wa Mungu, warithio pamoja na Kristo; naam, tukiteswa pamoja naye ili tupate na kutukuzwa pamoja naye.Utukufu Ujao
18 tKwa maana nayahesabu mateso ya wakati huu wa sasa kuwa si kitu kama utukufu ule utakaofunuliwa kwetu. 19 tKwa maana viumbe vyote pia vinatazamia kwa shauku nyingi kufunuliwa kwa wana wa Mungu. 20 tKwa maana viumbe vyote pia vilitiishwa chini ya ubatili; si kwa hiari yake, ila kwa sababu yake yeye atiyevitiisha katika tumaini; 21 tkwa kuwa viumbe vyenyewe navyo vitawekwa huru na kutolewa katika utumwa wa uharibifu, hata viingie katika uhuru wa utukufu wa watoto wa Mungu. 22 Kwa maana twajua ya kuwa viumbe vyote pia vinaugua pamoja, navyo vina utungu pamoja hata sasa. 23 tWala si hivyo tu; ila na sisi wenyewe tulio na malimbuko ya Roho, sisi pia tunaugua katika nafsi zetu, tukikutazamia kufanywa wana, yaani, ukombozi wa mwili wetu. 24 tKwa maana tuliokolewa kwa taraja; lakini kitu kilichotarajiwa kikionekana, hakuna taraja tena. Kwa maana ni nani anayekitarajia kile akionacho?
25 Bali tukikitarajia kitu tusichokiona, twakingojea kwa saburi.
26 Kadhalika Roho naye hutusaidia udhaifu wetu, kwa maana hatujui kuomba jinsi itupasavyo, lakini Roho mwenyewe hutuombea kwa kuugua kusikoweza kutamkwa. 27 tNa yeye aichunguzaye mioyo aijua nia ya Roho ilivyo, kwa kuwa huwaombea watakatifu kama apendavyo Mungu. 28 tNasi twajua ya kuwa katika mambo yote Mungu hufanya kazi pamoja na wale wampendao katika kuwapatia mema, yaani, wale walioitwa kwa kusudi lake. 29 tMaana wale aliowajua tangu asili, aliwachagua tangu asili wafananishwe na mfano wa Mwana wake, ili yeye awe mzaliwa wa kwanza miongoni mwa ndugu wengi.
30 Na wale aliowachagua tangu asili, hao akawaita; na wale aliowaita, hao akawahesabia haki; na wale aliowahesabia haki, hao akawatukuza.Upendo wa Mungu katika Kristo Yesu
31 tBasi, tuseme nini juu ya hayo? Mungu akiwapo upande wetu, ni nani aliye juu yetu? 32 tYeye asiyemwachilia Mwana wake mwenyewe, bali alimtoa kwa ajili yetu sisi sote, atakosaje kutukirimia na mambo yote pamoja naye? 33 tNi nani atakayewashitaki wateule wa Mungu? Mungu ndiye mwenye kuwahesabia haki. 34 tNi nani atakayewahukumia adhabu? Kristo Yesu ndiye aliyekufa; naam, na zaidi ya hayo, amefufuka katika wafu, naye yuko mkono wa kuume wa Mungu; tena ndiye anayetuombea. 35 Ni nani atakayetutenga na upendo wa Kristo? Je! Ni dhiki au shida, au adha, au njaa, au uchi, au hatari, au upanga?
36 tKama ilivyoandikwa, ya kwamba,
Kwa ajili yako tunauawa mchana kutwa,
Tumehesabiwa kuwa kama kondoo wa kuchinjwa.
37 tLakini katika mambo hayo yote tunashinda, na zaidi ya kushinda, kwa yeye aliyetupenda. 38 Kwa maana nimekwisha kujua hakika ya kwamba, wala mauti, wala uzima, wala malaika, wala wenye mamlaka, wala yaliyopo, wala yatakayokuwapo, wala wenye uwezo, 39 wala yaliyo juu, wala yaliyo chini, wala kiumbe kinginecho chote hakitaweza kututenga na upendo wa Mungu ulio katika Kristo Yesu Bwana wetu.
ROMANS 8
Living by the Power //of God's Spirit
1 If you belong to Christ Jesus, you won't be punished. 2 The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set yout free from sin and death. 3 The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ's body to condemn sin.
4 He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.
5 People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. 6 If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. 7 Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God's laws.
8 If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.
9 You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him. 10 But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins.
11 t Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.
12 My dear friends, we must not live to satisfy our desires. 13 If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say “No” to your desires. 14 Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children. 15 t t God's Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father.t 16 God's Spirit makes us sure that we are his children.
17 His Spirit lets us know that together with Christ we will be given what God has promised. We will also share in the glory of Christ, because we have suffered with him.A Wonderful Future //for God's People
18 t I am sure what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us. 19 In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who his children are. 20 t Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope 21 that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of his children.
22 We know that all creation is still groaning and is in pain, like a woman about to give birth.
23 t The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children.t This means that our bodies will also be set free. 24 And this hope is what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping.
25 However, we hope for something we have not yet seen, and we patiently wait for it.
26 In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words. 27 t All of our thoughts are known to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as the Spirit prays for God's people. 28 We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him.t They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose, 29 and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so his Son would be the first of many children.
30 God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.God's Love
31 What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us? 32 God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else? 33 If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them? 34 Or can anyone condemn them? No indeed! Christ died and was raised to life, and now he is at God's right side, t speaking to him for us. 35 Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death?
36 t It is exactly as the Scriptures say,
“For you we face death
all day long.
We are like sheep
on their way
to be butchered.”
37 In everything we have won more than a victory because of Christ who loves us. 38 I am sure that nothing can separate us from God's love—not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future, 39 and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!