EyoMsintsi 5, 2014

4:1	Ngokufanelekileyo, umntu ke makasigqale njengabalungiseleli bakaKristu, nabalungiseleli beemfihlelo zikaThixo.
4:2	Apha kwaye ngoku, Ke kaloku kufuneka ukuba ngamnye abe ethembekile.
4:3	Kodwa mna, kuyinto encinane gqitha ukuba nigwetywe nini, okanye ngeminyaka yoluntu. Nam ke andizigwebi ngokwam.
4:4	Kuba andinanto isazela sam. Kodwa andigwetyelwe kuko oko. Kaloku iNkosi iyandigweba.
4:5	Kwaye, musani ukukhetha ukugweba phambi kwelona xesha, ide ibuye iNkosi. uya kukhanyisela izinto ezifihlakeleyo zobumnyama, yaye uya kuwabonakalalisa amacebo entliziyo. Ngelo xesha ulowo nalowo uya kuba nodumo oluvela kuThixo.

5:33	Bathe ke bona kuye, “Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, and those of the Pharisees act similarly, while yours eat and drink?”
5:34	Wathi kubo: “How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them?
5:35	But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.”
5:36	Then he also made a comparison for them: “For no one sews a patch from a new garment onto an old garment. Kungenjalo, he both disrupts the new one, and the patch from the new one does not join together with the old one.
5:37	And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Kungenjalo, the new wine ruptures the wineskins, and it will be poured out, and the wineskins will be lost.
5:38	Kunoko, the new wine is put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
5:39	And no one who is drinking the old, soon wishes for the new. Kuba uthi, ‘The old is better.’ ”

Amagqabantshintshi