James 4
1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
Tuku ya me anwuk ac akukuin inmasrlowos inge? Ma inge tuku liki kena lowos nu ke mwe pwar koluk, su amei na in kowos.
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.
Kowos mwel ma lun mwet ac koflana eis, oru kowos akola in akmas; yokla nunkunma suwos, ac ke kowos tia ku in eis na kowos akukuin ac anwuk. Kowos tia eis ma kowos lungse mweyen kowos tia siyuk sin God kac.
3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
Ac pacl kowos siyuk uh kowos tiana eis, mweyen sripa lowos uh koluk. Kowos siyuk ke ma kowos in orekmakin nu ke pwar lowos sifacna.
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.
Tiana pwaye insiowos nu sin God! Ya kowos tia etu lah kowos fin mwet kawuk lun faclu, kalmac pa kowos mwet lokoalok lun God? Kutena mwet su lungse ma lun faclu el sifacna oru elan mwet lokoalok lun God.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
Nik kowos nunku mu sutuu uh Ma Simusla ma fahk mu, “God El lemtai ngun se su El filiya in kut.”
6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Tusruktu lungkulang se su God El ase, el ku liki na. Oana Ma Simusla uh fahk, “God El lainulos su inse fulat, a El sang lungkulang nu selos su pusisel.”
7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
Ke ma inge, eiskowosyang sifacna nu sin God. Kowos in lain Devil, ac el fah kaingkin kowos.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Kowos in kalukyang nu yurin God, ac El ac fah apkuranwot nu yuruwos. Ohlla pouwos, kowos mwet koluk! Aknasnasye insiowos, kowos mwet wosounkas!
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
Kowos in arulana asor, ac tung ac mwemelil; ekulla israsr lowos an nu ke tung, ac engan lowos nu ke inse toasr!
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Akpusiselye kowos sifacna ye mutun Leum, ac El fah akfulatye kowos.
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.
Mwet wiuk in lulalfongi, kowos in tia kaskas in sufan sie sin sie. Kutena mwet su sufan mwet lulalfongi wial ku nununkal, el lain Ma Sap ac orek nununku nu kac. Kom fin nununku Ma Sap, na kom tila sie su akos Ma Sap, a kom mwet nununku se.
12 There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.
God mukena pa orala Ma Sap ac orek nununku. El mukena ku in molela ac kunausla. Su kom an ku in nununku mwet wiom?
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.
Ac inge porongeyu, kowos su fahk mu, “Misenge ku lutu kut ac som nu ke sie siti ac muta we yac se, sramtauk sie business lasr ac konauk mani na yohk.”
14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
A kowos tia ku in etu lah moul lowos ac fuka lutu! Kowos oana sie kulasr, su sikyak ke kitin pacl na wanginla.
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.
Ma fal kowos in fahk pa inge: “Fin oh lungse lun God, kut fah moul ac oru ma se inge, ku ma se ingo.”
16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.
A inge kowos inse fulat ac tungak. Koluk kain konkin inge kewa.
17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.
Ke ma inge, nu sel su etu in oru wo a el tia oru, ac ma koluk se lal.
