James 4

1 From where [are] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?

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 desire, and do not have, [so] you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, [so] you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking;

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 ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.

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

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may intend to be a friend of the world, he is designated [as] an enemy 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, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”

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

6 but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”

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

7 Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;

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

8 draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!

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

9 Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;

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

10 be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.

Mulikokobeze habusu bwe Ireeza, mi kami nyamune hewulu.

11 Do not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, speaks against law, and judges law, and if you judge law, you are not a doer of 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 One is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?

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

13 Go, now, you who are saying, “Today and tomorrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain,”

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

14 who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;

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

15 instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;

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

16 but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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

17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing [it], it is sin to him.

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