James 4
1 Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you?
Kurwa nokukakavara pakati penyu kunobvepiko? Hakubvi pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa mukati menyu here?
2 You burn with desire, but don't get what you want. You kill for what you lust after, but don't get what you're looking for. You argue and you fight, but you don't get anything, because you don't pray for it.
Munoda chimwe chinhu asi hamuchiwani. Munouraya uye munochiva, asi hamugoni kuwana zvamunoda. Munokakavadzana uye munorwa. Hamuna chinhu, nokuti hamukumbiri Mwari.
3 You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures.
Pamunokumbira, hamugamuchiri, nokuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti mugoshandisa zvamunowana pamafaro enyu.
4 You adulterous people! Don't you realize that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Those who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God.
Imi vanhu voupombwe, hamuzivi kuti ushamwari nenyika hunovengana naMwari here? Ani naani anosarudza kushamwaridzana nenyika anova muvengi waMwari.
5 Do you think Scripture doesn't mean what it says: that the spirit that he put in us is very jealous?
Munofunga kuti Rugwaro runotaura pasina here kuti mweya waakaita kuti ugare matiri unotishuva negodo guru?
6 But God gives us even more grace, as Scripture says: “God is against those who are arrogant, but gives grace to those who are humble.”
Asi anotipa nyasha zhinji. Ndokusaka Rugwaro ruchiti: “Mwari anodzivisa vanozvikudza, asi anopa nyasha kuna vanozvininipisa.”
7 So place yourself under God's direction. Confront the devil, and he will run away from you.
Zviisei zvino, pasi paMwari. Dzivisai dhiabhori, uye achatiza kwamuri.
8 Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties.
Swederai kuna Mwari uye iye achaswedera kwamuri. Shambai maoko enyu, imi vatadzi, uye munatse mwoyo yenyu, imi vane mwoyo miviri.
9 Show some remorse, cry and weep! Turn your laughter into mourning, and your joy to sadness.
Chemai, murire uye muungudze. Shandurai kuseka kwenyu kuve kuchema uye mufaro wenyu uve kusuwa.
10 Be humble before the Lord and he will lift you up.
Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokusimudzirai.
11 Friends, don't speak badly of one another. Anyone who criticizes a fellow-believer and condemns them, criticizes and condemns the law. If you condemn the law you're not someone who keeps the law, because you're sitting in judgment of it.
Hama dzangu, musarevana. Ani naani anoreva hama yake kana kumutonga anotaura achirwa nomurayiro uye achiutonga. Kana uchitonga murayiro, iwe hauzi kuuchengeta, asi ugere uchitonga uri pauri.
12 There's only one lawgiver and judge—the one who can either save or destroy you—so who are you to judge your neighbor?
Panongova noMupi woMurayiro noMutongi mumwe chete, iye anokwanisa kuponesa kana kuparadza. Asi iwe, ndiwe aniko kuti utonge muvakidzani wako?
13 Come on now!—you people who say, “Either today or tomorrow we'll go to such-and-such a city, spend a year in business there, and make a profit.”
Zvino teererai, imi munoti, “Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta iri kana iro, tinopedza gore tiriko, tichiita basa uye tichiwana mari.”
14 You have no idea what will happen tomorrow! What's your life like? It's just a mist that appears for a little while, and then is gone.
Asi, imi hamutongozivi zvichaitika mangwana. Upenyu hwenyu chiiko? Muri mhute inoonekwa nguva duku uye ipapo yonyangarika.
15 What you should say is, “If it's the Lord's will, we'll live like this and plan to do that.”
Asi, munofanira kuti, “Kana Ishe achida, tichararama tigoita ichi nechocho.”
16 But right now you're caught up in your vain ideas. All this boasting is evil.
Asi zvino munozvikudza uye mune manyawi. Kuzvikudza kwakadaro kwakaipa.
17 For it is a sin if you know to do what's right but don't do it.
Ani naani, zvino, anoziva zvakanaka zvaanofanira kuita akasazviita, ari kutadza.
