Yakobo 4
1 Ngondo ni kuputana mwa ŵanyamwe ikukopochela kwapi? Ana ngaŵa ikutyochela mu tama syenu syasikukanilana mu nkati mwenu?
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 Nkulajila indu, ni pakuŵa ngankwipata, nkukombola kuulaga. Nkulajila kwannope kukola indu yejinji nambo ngankukombola kwipata, kwayele nkutandana ni kuputana. Ngankupata indu inkwisaka pakuŵa ngankwaŵenda Akunnungu.
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 Namose pankuŵenda, ngankupata pakuŵa nkuŵenda ni nningwa wangaŵa wambone, kuti nkombole kukwanisya tama syenu.
You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose — to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
4 Mwanya ŵandu ŵangakulupilichika! Ngankwimanyilila kuti kutenda uganja ni chilambo uli umagongo ni Akunnungu? Kwapele jwalijose jwakusaka kutenda uganja ni chilambo akulitesya jwammagongo jwa Akunnungu.
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 Nkaganichisya kuti Malembelo ga Akunnungu gakuti maloŵe gangali chindu pagakuti, “Mbumu jwa Akunnungu jwaŵichikwe mwetuwe akwete wiiu ligongo lyetu.”
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 Nambo umbone wa Akunnungu ukwete machili gamakulungwa nnope mpela yagakuti pakusala Malembelo ga Akunnungu, “Akunnungu akwakanila ŵaali ni chibuli nambo akwapa upile ŵakulitulusya.”
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 Kwayele nkunde kulongoswa ni Akunnungu. Mwakanile Shetani nombeŵo chambutuche.
Therefore submit to God; but resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Mwaŵandichile Akunnungu nombewo chambandichile. Njosye makono genu mwanya ŵandi ŵa sambi. Nswejesye mitima jenu mwanya ŵaulamba.
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 Nsupuche, nlile ni kulila kwamalumbo. Lukondwa lwenu luŵe kusupuka ni kuseka kwenu kuŵe kulila kwamalumbo.
Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
10 Nlitulusye paujo pa Ambuje nombewo chankwesye.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Achinjangu nkalalatilana mwachinsyene. Mundu jwakunlalatila njakwe ni kunlamula, jwelejo akugalalatila ni kugalamula malajisyo. Naga nkugalamula malajisyo mmwe ngankugajitichisya malajisyo nambo nkugalamula.
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 Akunnungu jikape ni ŵakugatyosya Malajisyo ni kulamula. Ni ŵelewo pe ni ŵakukombola kukulupusya ni kuulaga. Ana mmwe nli ŵaani junkwalamula ŵandu ŵane?
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 Sambano mpilikanile mwanya ŵankuti, “Lelo pane malaŵi tutujaule lisi limo, tukatame chaka chansima kweleko, ni kusumisya malonda ni kupata mbiya.”
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 Mwanya ngankwimanyilila ichiikopochele malaŵi mu umi wenu. Mwanya ndi mpela lipundugulu lyalikuwoneka katema kakajipi ni kusoŵa.
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 Ŵanyamwe mwasachilwe kuŵecheta yeleyi: “Ambuje asakaga chitutame ni kuchipanganya achi ni chelechi.”
You ought, rather, to say ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’
16 Nambo sambano, nkulilapa ni kuligamba. Kulilapa kwati yeleyo kuli chigongomalo.
But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
17 Nipele, mundu jwalijose jwakumanyilila chachili chambone chakusachilwa kuchitenda, nambo ngakuchitenda, mundu jo akupanganya sambi.
He, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it — that is sin in him.
