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Kotahitanga o te Tinana

1 Koia ahau, tā te Ariki herehere, ka whakahau nei i a koutou kia rite tā koutou haere ki te karangatanga i karangatia ai koutou, 2 kia pāpaku rawa te ngākau, kia māhaki, kia manawanui, kia āta hanga tētahi ki tētahi, i runga i te aroha; 3 me whai kia mau te kotahitanga o te Wairua, he mea paihere nā te rangimārie. 4 Kotahi tonu te tinana, kotahi te Wairua, pērā hoki me tō koutou karangatanga, kotahi tonu te mea o tō koutou karangatanga hei tūmanakotanga atu; 5 kotahi Ariki, kotahi whakapono, kotahi iriiri, 6 kotahi Atua, ko te Matua o ngā mea katoa, kei runga nei ia i ngā mea katoa, puta noa ia i ngā mea katoa, kei roto hoki i te katoa.

7 Kua oti ia te aroha noa te hōmai ki tēnei, ki tēnei, o tātou, i runga i te mēhua o tā te Karaiti hōmaitanga. 8 Nā reira hoki ia i mea ai:

"I tōna kakenga ki runga,

whakaraua ana e ia ngā whakarau,

ā, hoatu mea ana ia mā ngā tāngata."

9 (Nā, ko tēnei, "I kake ia ki runga," he aha, mehemea kāhore ia i mātua heke ki ngā wāhi o raro rawa o te whenua? 10 Tērā i heke rā, ko ia anō i kake atu nei ki runga ake i ngā rangi katoa, kia kī ai ngā mea katoa i a ia.) 11 Ā, hōmai ana e ia ko ētahi hei āpōtoro; ko ētahi hei poropiti; ko ētahi hei kaikauwhau i te rongopai; ko ētahi hei hēpara, hei kaiwhakaako; 12 kia tino rite ai te hunga tapu mō te mahi minita, mō te hanga i te whare, arā i te tinana o te Karaiti; 13 kia tae katoa rā anō tātou ki te kotahitanga o te whakapono, o te mātauranga hoki ki te Tama a te Atua, kia tino tangata, kia eke ki te mēhua o te tino kaumātuatanga e tutuki ai ki tō te Karaiti.

14 Kia mutu ai tō tātou tamarikitanga, te ākina, te kāhakihakina e ngā hau katoa o te whakaako, he whakawiringa kē nā te tangata, he māminga, he whakapōhēhē. 15 Engari, kia kōrero pono ai i runga i te aroha, kia tupu ai tātou ki roto ki a ia i ngā mea katoa, ko te upoko nei ia, ko te Karaiti; 16 nōna nei te tinana katoa, he mea whakapiri mārie, he mea āta hono e ngā meatanga a ngā hononga katoa, whakarite rawa ki te nui o te mahinga a ia wāhi, a ia wāhi, e mea ana i te tinana kia neke ake, hei whare e hanga ana i a ia i runga i te aroha.

Te Oranga Hou i roto i te Karaiti

17 Nā, ko tāku tēnei e kī nei, e whakaatu nei i roto i te Ariki, kia kāti tā koutou haere pērā me ērā atu tauiwi, e haere nei i roto i te whakahīhī o tō rātou hinengaro, 18 kua oti nei te whakapōuri ō rātou whakaaro, kua tangata kē ki tō te Atua ora, i te kūware o roto i a rātou, he pakeke hoki nō ō rātou ngākau. 19 Kāhore ō rātou ohoohonga, ā, tukua ana rātou e rātou anō ki te hiahia taikaha; riro pū rātou ki te mahi i ngā mea poke katoa.

20 Ko koutou ia kīhai i pērā tō koutou ako i a te Karaiti, 21 ki te mea kua rongo koutou ki a ia, kua whakaakona e ia ki ngā mea e rite ana ki te pono i roto i a Īhu. 22 Kia whakarērea e koutou te tangata tawhito, he āhua nō tō koutou whakahaere ō mua; he mea pirau nei hoki ia i runga i ngā hiahia tinihanga; 23 kia whakahoutia te wairua o tō koutou hinengaro; 24 kia kākahuria iho hoki ki a koutou te tangata hou, nō tā te Atua nei te hanganga i runga i te tika, i te tapu o te pono.

25 Heoi, whakarērea atu te teka; kia pono te kōrero ki tōna hoa, ki tōna hoa; he wāhi hoki tātou tētahi nō tētahi. 26 "Kia riri, ā, kaua e hara": kei toene te rā ki tō koutou riri, 27 kaua hoki tētahi wāhi e tukua ki te rēwera. 28 Ko te tangata tāhae, me whakamutu tāna tāhae; engari me mahi ko ōna ringa anō hei mahi i te mea pai, kia whai rawa ai ia hei hoatutanga māna ki te rawakore.

29 Kei puta tētahi kupu kino i ō koutou māngai, engari hei te mea e tau ana hei hanga i te pai, kia whiwhi ai ki te pai ngā tāngata e rongo ana. 30 Kaua hoki e whakapōuritia te Wairua Tapu o te Atua, nāna nei koutou i hīri mō te rā o te whakaoranga. 31 Kia wehea rawatia atu i roto i a koutou te nanakia, te riri, te āritarita, te ngangau, te kōrero kino, me te mauāhara katoa; 32 kia ngāwari tō koutou tikanga tētahi ki tētahi, kia pai te ngākau, me te hohou noa iho i te rongo tētahi ki tētahi, kia pērā anō me te Atua i hohou nei i te rongo ki a koutou i roto i a te Karaiti.

1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith,

When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive,

And gave gifts unto men.

9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 15 but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ; 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye did not so learn Christ; 21 if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need. 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.