James 4
1 From where [are] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?
Ngondu na makomangu pakati pa mwenga vilawa koshi? Vilawa mumatamata zyenu zidoda zyazilikomanga kila mala munshimba 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;
Mfira vintu kumbiti muvipata ndiri, su mwa kala kulaga, mfira nentu kupata vintu kumbiti muvipata ndiri. Su mwankulitenderana ngondu na kulikomanga. Mpata ndiri shilii shamfira toziya mushiluwa ndiri kwa Mlungu.
3 you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.
Na pamluwa mpata ndiri toziya mluwa kwa nfiru idoda, mluwa su mpati kufiriziya matamata zyenu.
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.
Mwenga wantu yamuwera ndiri waminika, hashi, muvimana ndiri kuwera ganja gwa pasipanu ndo kuwera mngondu gwa Mlungu? Yoseri yakafira kuwera ganja gwa vitwatira vya pasipanu kalitenda kuwera mngondu gwa Mlungu.
5 Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”
Ama namulihola kuwera Malembu Mananagala gahera unakaka pagalonga, “Rohu ulii Mlungu yakamtula mngati mwetu kawera na weya ng'anji.”
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.”
Kumbiti manemu gatupananwa na Mlungu gawera na makakala nentu, ntambu yagalonga Malembu Mananagala, “Mlungu kawasinga wantu yawawera na malingisi kumbiti kawalanguziya manemu wantu yawawera wananaga.”
7 Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;
Su mumjimiri Mlungu, mumsingi Shetani, nayomberi hakawatiri.
8 draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
Mumsegeleri Mlungu, nayomberi hakawasegeleri mwenga. Mguluri mawoku genu mwenga yamutenda vidoda! Muyipungi myoyu yenu mwenga wafyangu!
9 Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;
Muweri na hinginiku, mlili na kudaya. Kuseka kwa mwenga kuweri kulila, na nemeleru ya mwenga iweri hinginiku.
10 be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.
Mulinanagaziyi kulongolu kwa Mtuwa, nayomberi hakawanyasuli.
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.
Walongu, namulitakulirana madoda maweni kwa mwenga. Yakamtakulira madoda mlongu gwakuwi ama kumtoza, muntu ayu kalitakulira madoda na kulitoza Lilagaliru lya Mlungu. Pagulitoza Lilagaliru lya Mlungu, su gwenga gulijimira ndiri Lilagaliru lya Mlungu kumbiti gulitoza.
12 One is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?
Mlungu gweka yakuwi ndo yakatula Lilagaliru na kutoza. Ndo gweka yakuwi hera yakaweza kulopoziya na kwagamiziya. Su gwenga gwa gaa ata gumtozi muyagu?
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,”
Su vinu mpikaniri mwenga yamlonga, “Leru ama shirawu hatugendi mulushi tunga na kulikala aku kwa shipindi sha shinja shoseri, hatuwuzi vintu na kupata mota.”
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;
Mwenga muvimana ndiri ata makaliru genu ntambu hagaweri shirawu! Mwenga mulifana na lifukafuka lyalilawira kwa shipindi shididini hera na kuwuka kayi.
15 instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;
Ira memfiriziwi kulonga, “Mtuwa pakafira hatulikali na kutenda ashi ama shilii.”
16 but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
Kumbiti vinu mwankulidumba na kulitumba, matumbiru ga ntambu yoseri ayi ndo madoda.
17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing [it], it is sin to him.
Su muntu yakamana kutenda maheri na pakaleka kutenda, kankutenda vidoda.
