James 4

1 a hinge ni ji vii ni hama ni katu kabi ye ni mi mbi/

Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, — from your pleasures, 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

Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye 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

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

4 biyi bii tie kan binato na tie kpan ni ngbungblu ahi kwatre rji?

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted 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?

Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

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

Subject 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, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

9 losron kpukpome losron yi ndu nza mbi kati losron ngyri mbi ndu kati yi

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

10 ka tu mbi gji ni shishi rji u wawu ni nzuyi wlunde.

Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall 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

Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.

12 indji riri nno du nda tretre wawuyi nito kpa cuwo nda kpa tie meme

One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?

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

Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic 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

ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing, )

15 nawa u katre ndi baci nita kpa yine u ki he ni mi bi vrli ki tie wayi ndi tie wamu

instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also 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 ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

17 u indji wa ato kpe wa abi ndutiea nda na tieu na a hi latre ni wuu

To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.