True Humility
1 Christ encourages you, and his love comforts you. God's Spirit unites you, and you are concerned for others. 2 Now make me completely happy! Live in harmony by showing love for each other. Be united in what you think, as if you were only one person. 3 Don't be jealous or proud, but be humble and consider others more important than yourselves. 4 Care about them as much as you care about yourselves 5 and think the same way that Christ Jesus thought:
6 Christ was truly God.
But he did not try to remain
equal with God.
7 Instead he gave up everything
and became a slave,
when he became
like one of us.
8 Christ was humble.
He obeyed God and even died
on a cross.
9 Then God gave Christ
the highest place
and honored his name
above all others.
10 So at the name of Jesus
everyone will bow down,
those in heaven, on earth,
and under the earth.
11 And to the glory
of God the Father
everyone will openly agree,
“Jesus Christ is Lord!”
Lights in the World
12 My dear friends, you always obeyed when I was with you. Now that I am away, you should obey even more. So work with fear and trembling to discover what it really means to be saved. 13 God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him.
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing. 15 Then you will be the pure and innocent children of God. You live among people who are crooked and evil, but you must not do anything they can say is wrong. Try to shine as lights among the people of this world, 16 as you hold firmly to the message that gives life. Then on the day when Christ returns, I can take pride in you. I can also know that my work and efforts were not useless.
17 Your faith in the Lord and your service are like a sacrifice offered to him. And my own blood may have to be poured out with the sacrifice. If this happens, I will be glad and rejoice with you. 18 In the same way, you should be glad and rejoice with me.
Timothy and Epaphroditus
19 I want to be encouraged by news about you. So I hope the Lord Jesus will soon let me send Timothy to you. 20 I don't have anyone else who cares about you as much as he does. 21 The others think only about what interests them and not about what concerns Christ Jesus. 22 But you know what kind of person Timothy is. He has worked with me like a son in spreading the good news. 23 I hope to send him to you, as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me. 24 And I feel sure the Lord will also let me come soon.
25 I think I ought to send my dear friend Epaphroditus back to you. He is a follower and a worker and a soldier of the Lord, just as I am. You sent him to look after me, 26 but now he is eager to see you. He is worried, because you heard he was sick. 27 In fact, he was very sick and almost died. But God was kind to him, and also to me, and he kept me from being burdened down with sorrow.
28 Now I am more eager than ever to send Epaphroditus back again. You will be glad to see him, and I won't have to worry any longer. 29 Be sure to give him a cheerful welcome, just as people who serve the Lord deserve. 30 He almost died working for Christ, and he risked his own life to do for me what you could not.
Miso Rulogo Kristo ro Vuru vo
1 Ori amiro Kristo ya kani ami o'ba mbara ro, ago ŋgalu ndaro kani ami i'dwe. Ami rumora be Tori ya, ami orivoya yauni ndi yai'dwe be be azi be. 2 Ka'do inye meji ami ma o'bane twi riyä be a'doza tavousu alo ono be, ugu ŋgalu gi alo ono ka'dane, ago a'done lindri alo ndi tauni drî ro alo be. 3 Miye ŋga aza ko andivo o'ba si käti kode ole awi driuŋgyi rosi, oko nyòlogo andivo amiro vuru azi ri, ondoalo mìti ta azi ro ayani ndrani amiro drisi. 4 Ago mìndre ŋgase tana kusi azi be ayani ko toto ŋgase tana kusi ami be. 5 Taoye se a'done ämiri sina ni se Kristo Yesu ka'do be sina 'do.
6 Nda ondoalo orivoya beti Lu robe,
oko nda usu ta kote yi o'bane mbara si ojoojoro Lu be.
7 Oko, ole modo ndaro rosi nda e'be ŋgase cini nda be sina te,
ago ru beti a'do ruindu'ba rote.
Nda a'dote lidri ronye
ago ru beti lidri rote.
8 Nda logorute vuru ago abate liti taoro ro yasi sagwo le odra ya,
odra ndaro taka dri si.
9 Ta ono ro Lu eŋga nda te le kuru
ago ozo ävuru te ndäri se orivoya ndrani ävuru cini azi drisi.
10 Ndi inye, ävuru Yesu ro orona ya
ŋga cini vo'buyakuru ya, 'bädri ya ago gyini zele
osonayi kaya ànyaro 'da.
11 Ago vonayi cini ayonayi ta 'da ŋbelero ekye Yesu Kristo orivoya ni Opi yi,
räṛu Lu Täpi ro ri.
Nya'do Ŋgaeyi 'Bädri ro
12 Ka'do inye, bereazii se mulube ono, oso ondoalo miro mate tuse ma orivoya ami yibe si, orivoya anjioko tapara yi ämiri ma orone mabe i'do ami yibe ono. Nyùgu losi oye ri turi ndi lä'bi be si ta ŋgaopa amiro rota, 13 tana Lu ka losi oye ondoalo ami ya ami o'baza ta olene ago a'done mbara be ta modo ndaro ro orone.
14 Mìye ŋga cini driovi ako kode kaladiṛi ako, 15 tana nyà'do robe taenjiako ago wäṛiro oso ŋgwai ŋgye Lu ro ronye, se kayibe ori 'bädri taenjiro ndi lidri takozi amba be roya ono. Beṛo ämiri voeyine ànya lakosi oso 'bi'bii kabe ugu vokuru eyi ronye, 16 oso nyàbe lazo adri ro ozona ànyari ronye. Ondro ka'do mìye te inye, ma orivoya ta be a'doza driuŋgyi be ta amiro ta ikyi Tu ṛiri Kristo rosi, tana ka'dana ndi anjioko ruutri cini maro ndi losi se maye be enjiru kote awi.
17 Azaya oye kari maro odane ŋgapäṛi ronye tori oloro se taoma amiro kabe ozona Lu ri dri. Ondro ka'dote inye, ma orivoya yai'dwesi, ago ma riyä maro la'do ami cini be. 18 Kpa oso inye, beṛo kpa ämiri a'done yai'dwesi ago riyä amiro la'done ma be.
Timoteo ndi Epaferodita be
19 Ondro ka'do gini ole Opi Yesu ro, ma mio'ba be anjioko ma'dona ndi nja Timoteo ozone amire ndriro, tana otomba ma robe lazo amiro eri si. 20 Nda toto ni se kabe tavousu maro la'dona ago se kabe ta amiro otina endaro owo. 21 'Dicini ka toto ta modo ndaro ro usuna ayani, ko ta Yesu Kristo ro aya. 22 Ago andivo amiro mini tase nda kaka'da kado ndaro be te, nda ndi ma be, laba oso ŋgwa täpi ndaro be ronye, yeyi losi te troalo ta lazokado rota. 23 Ta'dota ma mio'ba be nda ozone amire ga yauro ondro mäni tase ka oyebe a'done märi te owo. 24 Ago mayi ta Opi ya anjioko ma andivo ma nja ukyine amire ndriro.
25 Musu tavote ni kado ädrupi amaro Epaferodita ozone amire, se ye losi te ago ye kyila te troalo ma be ago se indurute oso lazo'ba amiro ronye ugu ma opavoya. 26 Nda orivoya milo'bebe ami cini ondrene, ago usutate tu tana nyerite anjioko nda a'dote adravoro. 27 Endaro nda a'dote adravoro ṛo rritiro ago ti odrane. Oko Lu a'dote yauni be ndäri, ko gialo ndäri oko kpa märi, ago ana tusu 'desi teni mädrisi. 28 Ma orivoya nja nda ozone amire, tana nyà'do robe yai'dwesi kpa to'di ondro mindre nda te owo, ago tusu modo maro ro onaruna 'da. 29 Ago miru nda, riyä si, oso ädrupi Opi ya ronye. Nyàka'da taoro lidri cini se oso nda ronye ri, 30 tana nda ozo adri ndaro te ago ti odrane ta losi Kristo ro rota, tana kozo ŋgaopa se andivo amiro mìni kote ozone märi robe.