1 Yohana 4 – NEN & NIVUK

Kiswahili Contemporary Version (Neno: Bibilia Takatifu)

1 Yohana 4:1-21

Zijaribuni Hizo Roho

14:1 Mt 7:15; 1Kor 10:14; Yer 29:9; 1Kor 12:10; 2The 2:2; 1Yn 2:18Wapendwa, msiamini kila roho, bali zijaribuni hizo roho mwone kama zimetoka kwa Mungu, kwa sababu manabii wengi wa uongo wametokea ulimwenguni. 24:2 Yn 1:4; 1Yn 2:23; 1Kor 12:3Hivi ndivyo mnavyoweza kutambua Roho wa Mungu: Kila roho inayokubali kwamba Yesu Kristo amekuja katika mwili yatoka kwa Mungu. 34:3 1Yn 2:22; 2Yn 7; 1Yn 2:18Lakini kila roho ambayo haimkubali Yesu haitoki kwa Mungu. Hii ndiyo roho ya mpinga Kristo, ambayo mmesikia kwamba inakuja na sasa tayari iko ulimwenguni.

44:4 Rum 8:31; 2Fal 6:16Watoto wapendwa, ninyi mmetokana na Mungu, nanyi mmewashinda kwa sababu yeye aliye ndani yenu ni mkuu kuliko yeye aliye katika ulimwengu. 54:5 Yn 17:14, 16Wao wanatokana na ulimwengu na kwa hiyo hunena yaliyo ya ulimwengu, hivyo ulimwengu huwasikiliza. 64:6 Yn 8:47; 14:17Sisi twatokana na Mungu na yeyote anayemjua Mungu hutusikiliza, lakini asiyetokana na Mungu hatusikilizi. Hivi ndivyo tunavyoweza kutambua Roho wa Kweli na roho ya upotovu.

Mungu Ni Pendo

74:7 1Yn 3:11; 2:4Wapendwa, tupendane, kwa kuwa pendo latoka kwa Mungu. Kila apendaye amezaliwa na Mungu, naye anamjua Mungu. 84:8 1Yn 4:7, 16; 2:4; 3:6Yeye asiyependa hamjui Mungu, kwa sababu Mungu ni pendo. 94:9 Yn 3:16; 17; 1Yn 5:11Hivi ndivyo Mungu alivyoonyesha pendo lake kwetu: Mungu alimtuma Mwanawe wa pekee ulimwenguni, ili tupate uzima kupitia kwake. 104:10 Rum 5:8, 10; 1Yn 2:2Hili ndilo pendo: si kwamba tulimpenda Mungu, bali yeye alitupenda, akamtuma Mwanawe, ili yeye awe dhabihu ya upatanisho kwa ajili ya dhambi zetu. 114:11 Yak 3:16; 1Yn 2:25; Yn 1:4; 1Yn 4:9Marafiki wapendwa, kama Mungu alivyotupenda sisi, imetupasa na sisi kupendana. 124:12 Yn 1:18; 1Tim 6:16Hakuna mtu yeyote aliyemwona Mungu wakati wowote. Lakini tukipendana, Mungu anakaa ndani yetu, na pendo lake limekamilika ndani yetu.

134:13 1Yn 3:24; 2:3Tunajua kwamba twakaa ndani yake na yeye ndani yetu, kwa sababu ametupa sisi sehemu ya Roho wake. 144:14 Yn 15:27; Lk 2:10Nasi tumeona na kushuhudia kwamba Baba amemtuma Mwanawe ili awe Mwokozi wa ulimwengu. 154:15 1Yn 5:5; Rum 10:9Kila akiriye kwamba Yesu ni Mwana wa Mungu, basi Mungu hukaa ndani yake, naye ndani ya Mungu. 164:16 1Yn 4:8, 12, 13; 3:24Hivyo nasi twajua na kulitumainia pendo la Mungu alilo nalo kwa ajili yetu.

Mungu ni Upendo. Kila akaaye katika upendo hukaa ndani ya Mungu na Mungu hukaa ndani yake. 174:17 1Yn 4:12; 2:5; Efe 3:12; Mt 10:15Kwa njia hii, pendo hukamilishwa miongoni mwetu ili tupate kuwa na ujasiri katika siku ya hukumu, kwa sababu kama alivyo ndivyo tulivyo sisi katika ulimwengu huu. 184:18 Rum 8:15; 1Yn 4:12Katika pendo hakuna hofu. Lakini pendo lililo kamili huitupa nje hofu, kwa sababu hofu inahusika na adhabu. Kila mwenye hofu hakukamilika katika pendo.

194:19 1Yn 4:10Twampenda yeye kwa sababu yeye alitupenda kwanza. 204:20 1Yn 2:9; 3:17; Yn 1:18Ikiwa mtu atasema, “Nampenda Mungu,” lakini anamchukia ndugu yake, yeye ni mwongo. Kwa maana kila mtu asiyempenda ndugu yake ambaye anamwona, atampendaje Mungu asiyemuona? 21Naye ametupa amri hii: Yeyote anayempenda Mungu lazima pia ampende ndugu yake.

New International Version – UK

1 John 4:1-21

On denying the incarnation

1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognise the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognise the Spirit4:6 Or spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

God’s love and ours

7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No-one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

13This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: in this world we are like Jesus. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19We love because he first loved us. 20Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21And he has given us this command: anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.