James 4
1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
Hawn üngkhyüh ni ngtunnak ja ngvawknak naküt hin nangmi üngkhyüh a law ta. Nangmi üng angläta ngtunnak hin mlümlawknak ja nami hlükaweinak üngkhyüh lawki he ni.
2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.
Nami hlüei am nami taeikia kyase khyang nami hnimki. Akdena nami hlüei am nami yaheikia kyase ngtun ngvawk nami pawhkie. Nami hlüei am nami yah khawh hin acuna phäh Pamhnam am nami kthäha phäh ni.
3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
Nami ktaiyü üngpi am yah uki, isetiakyaküng, nami cungaih se lü nami mäta mlümlawknaka na sumei vaia nami kthäha phäh ni.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.
Am sitihkia khyange! Khawmdek püiei hlünaki hin Pamhnama ye ni tia am nami ksingki aw. Khawmdeka püia nami thawn hlü üngta Pamhnama yea namimät nami thawnsaki ni.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
Cangcim üng ngthungtak am ve tia käh ngaia, “Pamhnam naw a jah tak peta Ngmüimkhya cun naw akdena hlükaweinak am beki ni,” tia pyenki.
6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Lüpi Pamhnam naw a jah peta bäkhäknak hin kthamah bawki ni. Cangcim naw, “Camcahki Pamhnam naw jah mah lü mlung mhnemkie üng bäkhäknak jah peki ni.
7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
Acuna kyase, namimät Pamhnam üng cuapa. Khawyai cän nami mah üng nang ning dawn ta khai ni.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Pamhnama vei nami cäh üng ani cun pi nami veia cäh law khai ni. Nangmi mkhyeki he, nami kut mthi ua! Limmakie nami mlung ngcimsak ua!
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
Pukse u, ngpyang lü kyap u: nami yaihnak cän kyahnaka nglatsak lü nami jenak pi helatnaka nglatsak ua!
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Bawipa maa mlung nami mhnem üng ani naw ning jah jäksawn khai ni.
11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Ka püie, khyangkce käh khinyaiei u. Nang naw Khritjan kce khinyaiei lü ngthu nami khyah üngta nangmi naw Thum cän ngthumkhyah lü nami khinyaieikie ni. Thum cän ngthu nami mkhyah üng Thum cän nami läklamkia am kya lü Thum ngthumkhyahkia ni nami kya ve.
12 There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.
Pamhnam däk ni Thum jah pe lü ngthumkhyahkia a kya ve. Ani naw jah küikyan lü jah mkhyüh khawhki ni. Khyangkce ngthumkhyah pet khai ta namimät ia nami ngaieikie ni.
13 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain.
“Tuhngawi am ani üng khawngawi mlüh mata cit lü kum mat bang ve vai lü kunpan pawh lü ngui khawhah mi sui vai u,” tikie naw tuha na ngai ua.
14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
Khawngawi nami sak ia thawn khai ti cun am ksing uki! Nangmi cun asäng po law lü khyük bekia mei khua mäi ni a law ta.
15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.
“Bawipa naw hlüei lü mi xün u ta cun mi pawh kawm u” ti lü nami pyen vaia ni a kya ve.
16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.
Lüpi atuha camcah lü nami awhcahki, awhcahnak avan cun khyeki ni.
17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.
Acuna kyase, akdaw pawh vai ksing lü am mi pawh cän mi pawh vai u, mimi cun mi mkhyeki hea kyaki ni.
