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1 Ko tāku kupu ia tēnei: I te mea he tamariki tonu te tangata mōna te kāinga, kāhore ia e rerekē i te pononga, ahakoa ko te rangatira ia o ngā mea katoa;
2 engari, e meatia ana e ngā kaitohutohu, e ngā kaititiro, kia taea rā anō te wā i whakaritea e te pāpā.
3 Waihoki ko tātou, i te mea e tamariki ana, he pononga tātou nā ngā mea tīmatanga o te ao.
4 Ā, nō ka tutuki te tāima, ka tonoa mai e te Atua tāna Tama, i whānau i te wahine, i whānau i raro i te ture,
5 hei hoko i te hunga i raro i te ture, kia whiwhi ai tātou ki te whakatamarikitanga.
6 Nā, i te mea he tamariki koutou, kua tonoa mai e te Atua te Wairua o tāna Tama ki roto ki ō koutou ngākau, e karanga ana, “E Apa, e Pā!”
7 Heoi, kua mutu tōu ponongatanga, engari kua tama koe; ā, ki te mea he tama, nā mōu ngā mea i roto i te Atua.
Te Māharahara o Paora ki te Hunga Karatia
8 Heoi i reira, i te mea kīhai koutou i mātau ki te Atua, he pononga koutou nā ngā mea ehara nei i te atua tupu.
9 Ināianei ia, i te mea ka mātau nei koutou ki te Atua, arā, ka mātauria nei koutou e te Atua, he aha koutou ka tahuri ai anō ki aua mea ngoikore, rawakore, ki ngā mea tīmatanga, e hokia nā e tō koutou hiahia, kia waiho koutou hei pononga mā aua mea?
10 E mau ana koutou ki ngā rā, ki ngā marama, ki ngā wā, ki ngā tau.
11 E manawapā ana ahau ki a koutou, kei kore he hua mō tāku i mahi ai i roto i a koutou.
12 E ōku tēina, ko tāku tohe tēnei ki a koutou, kia rite ki ahau; e rite ana hoki ahau ki a koutou. Kāhore ā koutou mahi hē ki ahau.
13 E mātau ana koutou he mea nā te ngoikore e tōku kikokiko tāku kauwhau i te rongopai ki a koutou i te tuatahi.
14 Heoi, kīhai koutou i whakahāwea, i whakakino ki tōku whakamātautauranga i tōku kikokiko; nā, tahuri mai ana koutou ki ahau, ānō he anahera ahau nā te Atua, me te mea ānō ko Īhu Karaiti.
15 Kei hea rā tērā hari o koutou? He kaiwhakaatu hoki ahau mō tā koutou, me i taea kua tīkarohia e koutou ō koutou kanohi, ā, kua hōmai ki ahau.
16 Koia, kua hoariritia rānei ahau ki a koutou, mōku i kōrero i te pono ki a koutou?
17 Ko tā rātou whaiwhai i a koutou ehara i te pai; engari, e mea ana rātou kia tūtakina mai koutou, kia whai ai ko koutou ki a rātou.
18 He mea pai ia kia matenuitia i runga i te pai i ngā wā katoa, kauaka hoki i tōku nohoanga anake ki a koutou.
19 E āku tamariki, ka mamae nei anō ahau mō koutou, kia whai āhua rā anō a te Karaiti i roto i a koutou,
20 ko tāku hiahia me i konā ahau i a koutou nā āianei, kia puta kē anō tōku reo; nō te mea e ruarua ana ahau ki a koutou.
Te Tauira o Hakara rāua ko Hera
21 Kī mai ki ahau, e te hunga e hiahia ana kia noho i raro i te ture, kāhore ianei koutou e rongo ki tā te ture?
22 Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi, tokorua ngā tama a Āperahama, kotahi nā te wahine pononga, kotahi nā te wahine rangatira.
23 Ko tā te pononga nō te kikokiko tōna whānautanga. Ko tā te wahine rangatira ia he mea kōrero mai i mua.
24 He mea whakarite aua mea: ko ngā wāhine nei ngā kawenata e rua; kotahi nō Maunga Hinai, whānau ake ana hei taurekareka, ko Hakara tēnei.
25 Nā, ko tēnei Hakara ko Maunga Hinai i Arāpia, e rite ana hoki ki Hiruhārama onāianei, he pononga nei hoki ia, rātou ko āna tamariki.
26 Tēnā, ko te Hiruhārama i runga he mea herekore, ko ia tō tātou whaea.
27 Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi:
“Kia hari, e te pākoko kāhore nei e whānau!
Hāmama, karanga, e te mea kāhore nei kia whakamamae;
he tini kē hoki ngā tamariki
a te mea mahue i ā te mea whai tāne.”
28 Nā, ko tātou nei, e ōku tēina, e rite ana ki a Īhaka, he tamariki nā te kupu whakaari.
29 Engari e rite ana anō ki tō mua, ko te mea nō te kikokiko nei tōna whānautanga, whakatoia ana e ia te tama nō te Wairua nei tōna; e pērā ana anō ināianei.
30 Heoi, e pēhea ana tā te karaipiture? “Peia atu te wahine pononga rāua ko tāna tama; e kore hoki te tama a te wahine pononga e whiwhi tahi me te tama a te wahine rangatira ki te taonga.”
31 Nā, ehara tātou, e ōku tēina, i te tamariki nā te wahine pononga, engari nā te wahine rangatira.