July 20, 2014

Ubulumko 13: 13-16

12:13 For neither is there any other God but you, who has care of all, to whom you would show that you did not give judgment unjustly.
12:14 Neither will king or tyrant inquire before you about those whom you destroyed.
12:15 Ngoko ke, since you are just, you order all things justly, considering it foreign to your virtue to condemn him who does not deserve to be punished. 12:16 For your power is the beginning of justice, kwaye, because you are Lord of all, you make yourself to be lenient to all.

AmaRoma 8:26-27

8:26 Kwaye ngokufanayo, noMoya uncedisana nokuswela kwethu amandla. Kuba asiyazi eyona ndlela singathandaza ngayo, ke uMoya ngokwakhe usibiza ngokuncwina okungathethekiyo.
8:27 Ke ozicikidayo iintliziyo uyakwazi into ayifunayo uMoya;, ngokuba ubacengela abangcwele ngokukaThixo.

UMateyu 13: 24-43

13:24 He proposed another parable to them, esithi: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
13:25 But while the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds amid the wheat, and then went away.
13:26 And when the plants had grown, and had produced fruit, then the weeds also appeared.
13:27 So the servants of the Father of the family, isondela, wathi kuye: ‘Nkosi, akuhlwayelanga imbewu entle na entsimini yakho? Then how is it that it has weeds?'
13:28 Wathi kubo, ‘A man who is an enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Is it your will that we should go and gather them up?'
13:29 Uye wathi: ‘No, lest perhaps in gathering the weeds, you might also root out the wheat together with it.
13:30 Permit both to grow until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers: Gather first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather into my storehouse.’ ”
13:31 He proposed another parable to them, esithi: “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.
13:32 It is, kanjalo, the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is greater than all the plants, and it becomes a tree, so much so that the birds of the air come and dwell in its branches.”
13:33 He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, eyathatyathwa yinkazana, yayifihla ezilinganisweni zozithathu zomgubo ocoliweyo, yada yabiliswa kwaphela.
13:34 All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds. And he did not speak to them apart from parables,
13:35 in order to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, esithi: “I will open my mouth in parables. I will proclaim what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
13:36 Emva koko, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples drew near to him, esithi, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
13:37 Ukuphendula, wathi kubo: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of man.
13:38 Now the field is the world. And the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the weeds are the sons of wickedness.
13:39 So the enemy who sowed them is the devil. Kwaye ngokwenene, the harvest is the consummation of the age; while the reapers are the Angels.
13:40 Ngoko ke, just as weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the consummation of the age.
13:41 The Son of man shall send out his Angels, and they shall gather from his kingdom all who lead astray and those who work iniquity.
13:42 And he shall cast them into the furnace of fire, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
13:43 Then the just ones shall shine like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, makeve.