Jacob 4
1 Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
Nʼchiyani chimene chimayambitsa ndewu ndi mapokoso pakati panu? Kodi sizichokera ku zilakolako zimene zimalimbana mʼkati mwanu?
2 You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Mumalakalaka zinthu koma simuzipeza, choncho mumapha. Mumasirira zinthu koma simutha kuzipeza zimene mukufuna, choncho mumakangana ndi kumenyana. Mulibe zinthuzo chifukwa simupempha kwa Mulungu.
3 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Koma ngakhale mumapempha simulandira, chifukwa mumapempha ndi zolinga zoyipa. Mumapempha kuti muzigwiritse ntchito pa zokusangalatsani nokha.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Inu anthu achigololo, kodi simukudziwa kuti kuchita ubwenzi ndi dziko lapansi ndi kudana ndi Mulungu? Choncho, aliyense wosankha kukhala bwenzi la dziko lapansi amasanduka mdani wa Mulungu.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Ruach which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
Kapena mukuganiza kuti Malemba amanena popanda chifukwa kuti Mulungu amafunitsitsa mwansanje mzimu umene Iye anayika kuti uzikhala mwa ife?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Koma amatipatsa chisomo chochuluka. Nʼchifukwa chake Malemba amati, “Mulungu amatsutsa odzikuza, koma apereka chisomo kwa odzichepetsa.”
7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Dziperekeni nokha kwa Mulungu. Mukaneni Mdierekezi ndipo adzakuthawani.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Sendezani kufupi ndi Mulungu ndipo Iye adzasendeza kwa inu. Sambani mʼmanja mwanu, inu anthu ochimwa. Yeretsani mitima yanu, inu anthu okayikira.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Chitani chisoni chifukwa cha zimene mwachita, lirani misozi. Kuseka kwanu kusanduke kulira, ndipo chimwemwe chanu chisanduke chisoni.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Dzichepetseni pamaso pa Ambuye ndipo Iye adzakukwezani.
11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Abale musamanenane. Aliyense wonenera zoyipa mʼbale wake kapena kumuweruza, akusinjirira ndi kuweruza Malamulo. Pamene muweruza malamulo, ndiye kuti simukusunga malamulowo, koma mukuwaweruza.
12 Only one is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Pali mmodzi yekha Wopereka Malamulo ndi Woweruza. Ndiye amene akhoza kupulumutsa ndi kuwononga. Kodi ndiwe yani kuti uziweruza mnzako?
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
Tsono tamverani, inu amene mumati, “Lero kapena mawa tipita ku mzinda wakutiwakuti, tikatha chaka chimodzi tikuchita malonda ndi kupanga ndalama.”
14 Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Chifukwa chiyani mukutero? Inu simukudziwa zimene ziti zichitike mawa. Kodi moyo wanu ndi wotani? Inu muli ngati nkhungu imene imangooneka kwa kanthawi kochepa ndipo kenaka ndikuzimirira.
15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
Koma inuyo muyenera kunena kuti, “Ambuye akalola, tikadzakhala ndi moyo, tidzachita zakutizakuti.”
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Koma mmene zililimu mumangodzitama ndi kudzikuza. Kudzitama konse kotereku ndi koyipa.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Aliyense amene amadziwa zabwino zimene amayenera kuchita koma osazichita, ndiye kuti wachimwa.
