James 4
1 a hinge ni ji vii ni hama ni katu kabi ye ni mi mbi/
Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?
2 son ndi na nafe na bi wuundu tiengu bina fena bi tsi ni vii u zizan bina fena don bina mye na
You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.
3 bi bre ndi na fe na don bina bre ni kon ndindi ma na bi son ndi bi tie ndu niwu ni kon meme ma
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
4 biyi bii tie kan binato na tie kpan ni ngbungblu ahi kwatre rji?
Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.
5 bisi ya ndi ikpe wa nasi hla ahe megen? ibrji tsratsra wa a he ni i mbua nitie ngu kpukpo me?
Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No.
6 irji nno zizi babran itre rji tre ndi irji ni kamani ndrji u sentu ani tie zizi ni ndrji u katugyi
But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says: God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.
7 nnotumbi ni rji kambi ni shetan ani tsutsu di kon yuwuu
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you;
8 whie ye ni rji u wawu me ni whie ni yi ngla wo mbi biyi bi latre ngla sron mbi biyi bi sron ha
draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded men.
9 losron kpukpome losron yi ndu nza mbi kati losron ngyri mbi ndu kati yi
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to sorrow.
10 ka tu mbi gji ni shishi rji u wawu ni nzuyi wlunde.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 na tretre meme nitu vayi me na mrlivayi indji wa a tretre meme ma nitu vayima ko atron nitu vayi ma ani tretre meme ma nitu du nda ni bla tre nitu du a tsro ndi u na to ni nfutu na ukati indji u bla
Do not speak evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 indji riri nno du nda tretre wawuyi nito kpa cuwo nda kpa tie meme
There is one law-giver that is able to save, and to destroy: who are you that judge another?
13 wo mba biyi a bi tre ndi iuwa komble ki hi ni gbu mu ndi tie se ri nikima ndi le ndi fe gbugbuu
Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain;
14 ahi nhato kpe wa ni te imblea ka son me ni he ni he u he na kpalu wa ani rij niton fie me nda ka kadoa
and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away?
15 nawa u katre ndi baci nita kpa yine u ki he ni mi bi vrli ki tie wayi ndi tie wamu
Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 zizan u wuro ni san ni kpe wa uyo nimi sron mea bi bi wuro ni san kima ahi kpe memema
But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.
17 u indji wa ato kpe wa abi ndutiea nda na tieu na a hi latre ni wuu
Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
