Epeha 4 - Paipera Tapu 2012

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.