James 4
1 a hinge ni ji vii ni hama ni katu kabi ye ni mi mbi/
What is the cause of the fighting and quarrelling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
2 son ndi na nafe na bi wuundu tiengu bina fena bi tsi ni vii u zizan bina fena don bina mye na
You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.
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, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose — to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
4 biyi bii tie kan binato na tie kpan ni ngbungblu ahi kwatre rji?
Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to 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 there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks — ‘Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?’
6 irji nno zizi babran itre rji tre ndi irji ni kamani ndrji u sentu ani tie zizi ni ndrji u katugyi
No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said — ‘God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.’
7 nnotumbi ni rji kambi ni shetan ani tsutsu di kon yuwuu
Therefore submit to God; but 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. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillating men!
9 losron kpukpome losron yi ndu nza mbi kati losron ngyri mbi ndu kati yi
Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
10 ka tu mbi gji ni shishi rji u wawu ni nzuyi wlunde.
Humble yourselves before 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 disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.
12 indji riri nno du nda tretre wawuyi nito kpa cuwo nda kpa tie meme
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge — he who has the power both to save and to destroy. But who are you that pass judgment on your 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
Listen to me, you who say ‘To-day or to-morrow we will go to such and such a town, spend a year there, and trade, and make money,’
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 do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist 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
You ought, rather, to say ‘If the Lord wills, 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, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
17 u indji wa ato kpe wa abi ndutiea nda na tieu na a hi latre ni wuu
He, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it — that is sin in him.
