James 4

1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Hanu ni mi wambila chizi ha mulilwisa ni ku kanana mukati kenu? Kena kuti mubonse mu suna ku tenda zintu zibi zi mu suna ahulu ku tenda zintu zisa tabisi ba mwenu?

2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

Mu shukelwa zintu, mi kamu zi wani. Mwi ihaya bantu ba mi bindisa kuti muzi wane, mi kamu wani zimu suna. Mu lwa ni kukanana. Kono ka muwani zimu suni kakuti ka mu kumbili kwe Ireeza.

3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

Niha mu kumbila kamu wani kakuti mukumbililo wenu kana mu lotu, kakuti muzi tendise mu mu sunina.

4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Inwe basangu! Ka mwizi kuti ku suna nze ikanda ku lwisa Ireeza? Ni hakuba bulyo yo suna kuba mulikani wa ze inkanda uli tenda chila cha Simwine.

5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

Kapa muwana kuti ka kwina ibaka Ireeza haba wamba bulyo “Luhuho lwaba biki kwetu luhala lwina ifufa ikando?

6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

Kono Simwine utu ha chisemo, mi iñolo liti, “Ireeza u kanina bali kumusa, kono uha chisemo ku bali bika hansi.”

7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

Mi mulitule kwa Simwine. Mu tande satani, mi kazwe kwenu.

8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Mwize hafuhi ni Simwine, mi keze hafuhi nenwe. Mujoloze mayanza, inwe mahedeni, mi mujoloze inkulo zenu, inwe mwina mihupulo yobele.

9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

Mu likalilwe, mulile, mi mubokolole! Mu leke ku seka kwenu ku sanduke chililo mi ku sanga kube maswabi.

10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

Mulikokobeze habusu bwe Ireeza, mi kami nyamune hewulu.

11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

Kanzi muwambi zibi ku ba mwenu, bakwangu. Muntu yo wamba zibi kwa mwakwe kapa kuatula mu kwako ha wamba chibi hamulao u atula mulao. Heba no atula mulao, kena umu tendi wa mulao, kono umuatuli.

12 There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?

Hesi yenke njo ha mulao mi njo atula. Nji yenke yo haza ni kushinya. Njinwe bani, inwe mu atula ba mu bambene nabo?

13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

Hanu, mutekeleze, inwe mu wamba kuti “Sunu kapa Izona kantu yende ku muleñeni, mu ka wuze mi muka tende iñambekelo.”

14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

Njeni wizi chete ni chitendahale izona, mi buhalo bwenu njo buhi? Mihe mu mume wiza kenako inche ni ku mana.

15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

Kambe, muwamba kuti, “Heba Ireeza na suna, heba ni tuchi hala katu tende ichi kapa china”.

16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

Kono hanu muli tundula ka mitendo yi mu suna ku tenda. Zonse za kuli tundula bubi.

17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Muntu yense wizi ku tenda chilotu kono ka chi tendi, kwa li chibe.