James 1
1 yakubu gran rji na baci yesu kristi he ni gji wlon don ha bi wa ba shankado mi ci yi
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.
2 ban ba wawuu ni ngyri mrlivyayi mu niton wa bi ku niyaa
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
3 to ridi ahitsa yosron mbi ni ngji vurson
Knowing that the proof of your faith worketh patience.
4 ndu vurontien ndu ma ndi ndu yi sen ngbendble ndi na wakpe haman
And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
5 iri mi nita ni wato ka bre rji wa ani nno ni yalwace ana whicn ni bi wa ba bre wua na ani nno ba
But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 ama ndu mye ni yosron ana ni sron ha naidji waa a nitie sron ha ahe na lukurmi u teku wa nghunghu ni fu kadidan
But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
7 ndu idji kima na ya ridi wawuu ni fe kpe ni rji na
For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;
8 ahi idji u sion ha ana tie kpe tsratra me na
a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 ndu vayi u ya wruwo nisan nitu ndu ma ribranma
But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:
10 idji u wo (arziki) wa a heni ndu tsitsama ani kle na fure ngega u miji
and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 don irj ni hwu waka klu ngongon me na giga
For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
12 lulu he nitu idjji wa ani vusron ni tsara don anita vusrom ni tsra ani fe rawani u vrliwa ba yo nyi ni biwa ba son rija
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.
13 ndu njiori na tre ndi ba tra wawuu ndi a rji mba tra wawuu na ba na tra rji ni meme na wawuu ni tuma ana tra njori na
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:
14 u dji ni fe tsra ma nitu tie meme ma kima wa ani gyru nda kawu kaskan
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
15 wa kptre meme ma whrji nee aningyji latre latre nita babran ani ngyi kuwu
Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
16 mrli vayi na ndu njio gyruyiria
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
17 inno ndindima wawuu rhji ni rji a gji rji ni tie ukpan ana kasran na ahena whie (inuwa)
Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
18 a cu ndu wawuugyji ta nitu tre njanji ni ndu ta kati whie ma mumlan
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 bito wayi mrlivayi wa mikpayi ymea ndu ko nha srenton gbagbla nda na tre gbagblana nda na tie nfu gbagbla na
Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 don infu ndji na kpe ndindi u rji yena
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 na kima ka ndu bi meme mataga ndi kpatre wa rji yo nisron ndjia wa ani kpata cuwoa
Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 tre ndu ni tre rji na wowuu megena na bi gyru ton mbi
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
23 indji nita ni wotre nda na tie ndu na ahe na indji wa aya shishi ma ni madubi
For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
24 aya shishi ma nda hii kpama gbagbla me nda kpa rlisu ka shishi ma he ni he
for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 u indrji wa a ya du ndi ndi ma cen me wa a kpata cuwoa nda hu ba ndindi me nda he na indji wa ruwo nda kpa rli sua na indji kima ni tie lulu ni kpe wa anibie
But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.
26 indji wa ta mren ndi wawu hi ndji u adini nda na vunyu mana ani gyru tuma mu adini ma hi u megen (banza)
If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27 adini wa a tsra tsra mea nda na meme ni shishi baci tie ndu zo bi wa bana he ni tie na ni biwa bana he ni lilon na ni mi yamba nda ndu ndji son hama ni latre ni ngbungblu
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
