James 4
1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Kuzwa kuli kupopotezyania ampyopyongano akati kenu? Tazizwidi muziyandisyo zyenu na eezyo zilwana akati kenu nubeni?
2 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Mulapeekezya, pesi tamukwepe. Mulajaya akuba bbivwe, pesi tamukonzyi kujana. Mulalwana akupopotezyania. Takwe anchimulacho nkambo tamukumbili.
3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
Mulakumbila pesi tamupegwi nkambo mukumbila aanzila italuleme, mukuyanda kuti muyibelesye kuziyandisyo zyenu.
4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Nywebo nobasimamaambe! Tamwizi na kuti buzolwani enyika nkulwana a-Leza? Nkokwamba kuti kufumbwa ulisalila kuba mwenzinyina wanyika ulichita sinkondonyina a Leza.
5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
Na muyeya kuti malembe awamba zyabiyo aamba kuti, “Imuuya ngwakachita kuti upone mulindiswe uli abbivwe loko”?
6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Pesi Leza uupa luzyalo lwiingi, aboobo malembe awamba kuti, “Leza ulabakazya basikuliyanda, pesi ufwida luzyalo kuli balibombya.”
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Nkokuti amulipede kuli Leza. Mumukkake satani, alimwi ulamutantamuka.
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Amuswene afwifwi a Leza, alimwi uleza afwifwi andinywe, Amusalazye maboko eenu, inywe nobasizibi, alimwi musalazye myoyo yenu, inywe nobasimyoyo ibili.
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Mumvwe machise, mupwaye mibila, akulila! Muchite kuti kuseka kwenu kube mawuse alimwi lukondo lwenu kube kukankabala.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Amulibombye kunembo lya Mwami, alimwi uyomupa bulemu.
11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
Tamunowambuli chakutamikizyania, nobakwesu. Imuntu uwambula bubi aatala amuzyalwanyina na kupa mulandu kumuzyalwa nyina ukazyania amulawu alimwi uupa mulawu mulandu. Kutikopa mulawu mulandu, toli simuchita mulawu pe, pesi uli mubetesi.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Ngumwi biyo sikupa mulawu mubetesi. Ngooyo ukonzya kufutula akujaya. Nduweni, iwebo noopa mulalandu kuli simayake nyokwe?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
Muswilizye lino, inywe nimwamba kuti, “sunu kana ijunza tuyonjila muchisi eechi, tukakkale munyaka nkukooko, tukasambale, alimwi tukajane impindu.”
14 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Ngwani uuzi zitakachitike juunza, alimwi buumi bwako niinzi? Nkambo nduwe sikkunkwe uuboneka kwachiindi chinini mpawo wamwayika.
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
Anukuti, mwelede kwamba kuti, “Na Mwami kayanda, tulapona alimwi tuchite eechi kana echiya.”
16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
Pesi lino mulalikankayizya aatala amabambe aanu. Kulikankayizya kuli bobiya konse nkubi.
17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Nkinkaako kuli woonse uuzi kuchita kabotu pesi katazichiti, kulinguwe nchoono.
