MUNGUVA yakapfuura, matare edzimhosva mune imwe nyika yekumadokero akatongera rufu vamwe varume vaviri vainyeperwa kuti vakaponda munhu. Pakazozivikanwa kuti uchapupu hwacho hwaiva hwenhema, magweta akamira-mira kusvikira mumwe wevarume vacho anzi haana mhosva. Asi mumwe wacho akanga atourayiwa, saka pakanga pasisina zvekuita.

Sezvo matongero akadaro achigona kuitika mumatare, Bhaibheri rinokurudzira kuti: “Kururamisira—utevere kururamisira.” (Dheuteronomio 16:20) Kana vatongi vakaita izvi, zvinobatsira vanhu vose. Mutemo waMwari waikurudzira vaIsraeri kutonga nyaya zvakanaka pasina kusarura. Ngatimboongororai Mutemo wacho tione kana nzira dzose dzaMwari dziri “dzokururamisira.”—Dheuteronomio 32:4.

Zvinhu zvinofamba zvakanaka kana vatongi vachiita basa ravo nemazvo, vasingasaruri uye vasingaiti uori. Mutemo wakapiwa vaIsraeri naMwari waisimbisa kuti ndizvo zvaifanira kuitwa nevatongi. Vachangotanga rwendo rwemurenje, Mosesi akaudzwa kuti asarudze “varume vanokwanisa, vanotya Mwari, varume vakavimbika, vanovenga mubereko usina kururama” kuti vave vatongi. (Eksodho 18:21, 22) Pashure pemakore 40, Mosesi akasimbisazve kuti varume “vakachenjera, vakangwara uye vane zivo” ndivo vaifanira kutonga vanhu.—Dheuteronomio 1:13-17.

Papera mazana emakore, Mambo weJudha, Jehoshafati, * akaudza vatongi kuti: “Onai zvamuri kuita, nokuti hamutongeri munhu asi Jehovha; uye iye anemi mukutonga kwacho. Zvino ityai Jehovha. Chenjerai, muite chimwe chinhu, nokuti kuna Jehovha Mwari wedu hakuna zvisina kururama kana rusaruro kana kugamuchira pfumbamuromo.” (2 Makoronike 19:6, 7) Nemashoko aya Mambo wacho akayeuchidza vatongi kuti kana vaizotonga nyaya nemakaro uye rusarura, Mwari aizovapa mhosva yezvakaipa zvaizoitika.

Vatongi vemuIsraeri pavaitevedzera mitemo yaMwari, vaIsraeri vaisambova nechekutyira. Mutemo waMwari waivawo nezvimwe zvaibatsira vatongi kupa mitongo yakarurama, kunyange panyaya dzainge dzakaoma zvikuru. Zvimwe zvacho ndezvipi?

Kunyange zvazvo vatongi vaisarudzwa vaifanira kunge vari varume vakangwara uye vanokwanisa, vaisafanira kupa mitongo vachivimba nepfungwa dzavo kana kuti unyanzvi hwavo. Jehovha Mwari akavaudza zvaizovabatsira kutonga zvakanaka. Ngationei zvimwe zvacho.

Kunyatsoongorora. Achishandisa Mosesi, Jehovha akaudza vatongi vemuIsraeri kuti: “Pamunenge muchinzwa mhosva dziri pakati pehama dzenyu, mutonge zvakarurama.” (Dheuteronomio 1:16) Kuti vatongi vape mutongo wakarurama, vanofanira kuziva zvose zvakaitika. Saka Mwari akaudza vaya  vaitonga nyaya kuti: “Iwe unofanira kutsvakawo, woongorora uye wobvunzisisa.” Dare raifanira kutanga raona kuti nyaya yacho ‘yasimbiswa kuti ndeyechokwadi’ risati rapa mutongo.—Dheuteronomio 13:14; 17:4.

Kunzwa uchapupu. Zvaitaurwa nezvapupu zvaikosha chaizvo pakuongorora nyaya. Mutemo waMwari waiti: ‘Chapupu chimwe chete hachifaniri kupupurira munhu pamusoro pokukanganisa chero kupi zvako kana kuti chero chivi chipi zvacho. Nyaya yacho inofanira kusimbiswa kana papupurirwa nezvapupu zviviri kana kuti papupurirwa nezvapupu zvitatu.’ (Dheuteronomio 19:15) Mutemo waMwari waiudzawo zvapupu zvacho kuti: “Usataura mashoko enhema. Usabatsirana nomunhu akaipa nokuva chapupu chinoronga kuita” zvakaipa.—Eksodho 23:1.

Kupa uchapupu hwechokwadi. Kurangwa kwaiitwa anenge anyepa mudare kwaiyambira vose vaizopa uchapupu nekuti Mutemo waiti: “Vatongi vacho vanofanira kunyatsoongorora, uye kana chapupu chacho chiri chapupu chenhema uye chapupurira hama yacho zvenhema, muchiitirewo zvachanga charonga kuitira hama yacho, uye unofanira kubvisa zvakaipa pakati pako.” (Dheuteronomio 19:18, 19) Saka kunyepa kuti upiwe nhaka yemumwe kwaiita kuti ubhadhariswe zvaienderana nezvawanga uchida kuwana. Kana munhu akapa uchapupu hwenhema kuti munhu asina mhosva aurayiwe, munhu wacho ainge anyepa ndiye aibva aurayiwa. Izvi zvaibatsira chaizvo kuti vanhu vataure chokwadi.

Kutonga pasina kusarura. Pashure pekuwana uchapupu hwese, vatongi vaibva vakurukura kuti vape mutongo. Ipapo vaifanira kunyatsotevedzera Mutemo waMwari unoti: “Usasarura akaderera, uye usada munhu mukuru [kana kuti munhu akapfuma]. Unofanira kutonga mumwe wako zvakarurama.”  (Revhitiko 19:15) Nguva dzose vatongi vaifanira kutonga nyaya sezvairi, vasingatarisi chimiro chemunhu uye chinzvimbo chaaiva nacho.

Pfungwa idzi dzakajeka dziri muMutemo wakapiwa vaIsraeri naMwari dzinogonawo kushanda mumatare mazuva ano. Kana dzikatevedzerwa, nyaya dzinotongwa zvakanaka uye vanhu havazorangirwi mhosva dzavasina kupara.

Mosesi akabvunza vaIsraeri kuti: “Ndorupi rudzi rukuru ruripo rune mirau yakarurama nezvakatongwa sezvakaita mutemo wose uyu wandiri kuisa pamberi penyu nhasi?” (Dheuteronomio 4:8) Zvechokwadi hapana rumwe rudzi rwaitungamirirwa nemutemo waMwari. Paitonga Mambo Soromoni uyo akatanga kuteerera mitemo yaJehovha achiri mudiki, vanhu vaigara “vakachengeteka,” kuine runyararo uye vanhu vakagarika, “vachidya nokunwa nokufara.”—1 Madzimambo 4:20, 25.

Zvinosuwisa kuti vaIsraeri vakazoguma vasisateereri mitemo yaMwari. Achishandisa muprofita Jeremiya, Mwari akataura kuti: “Tarirai! Vakaramba shoko raJehovha, kuchenjera kwavo kuripi?” (Jeremiya 8:9) Izvi zvakaita kuti Jerusarema rive “guta rine mhosva yeropa” uye rizare nezvinhu “zvinosemesa.” Rakazoparadzwa, ndokuva dongo kwemakore 70.—Ezekieri 22:2; Jeremiya 25:11.

Zvinhu zvakanga zvisina kugadzikana muIsraeri panguva yakararama muprofita Isaya. Achifunga nezvenguva iyoyo, Isaya akataura mashoko anokosha nezvaJehovha Mwari uye Mutemo wake achiti: “Kana paine kutonga kunobva kwamuri nokuda kwenyika, vagari vomunyika inobereka vachadzidza kururama.”—Isaya 26:9.

Isaya akafara paakafemerwa kunyora uprofita hwaitaura nezvekutonga kwaMambo Mesiya, Jesu Kristu, achiti: “Haazotongi nokungoona chete nemaziso ake, kana kungotsiura maererano nezvaanenge anzwa nenzeve dzake. Asi achatongera vakaderera nokururama, uye achatsiura nokururama nokuda kwevanyoro venyika.” (Isaya 11:3, 4) Chokwadi idzi itarisiro dzakazonaka dzine vanhu vachatongwa naMambo Mesiya muUmambo hwaMwari!—Mateu 6:10.