Jacob 4

1 Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

Dzinobvepi hondo nekurwa pakati penyu? Hazvibvi apa here, pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa pamitezo yenyu?

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.

Munoshuva, asi hamuna chinhu; munouraya uye munoshumba, asi hamugoni kuwana chinhu; munorwa muchiita hondo, asi hamuna chinhu, nokuti hamukumbiri.

3 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Munokumbira, asi hamugamuchiri, nokuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti muparadze pakuchiva kwenyu.

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.

Imwi mhombwe nemhombwekadzi, hamuzivi here kuti ushamwari hwenyika ruvengo kuna Mwari? Naizvozvo umwe neumwe anoda kuva shamwari yenyika, anova muvengi waMwari.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Ruach which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?

Kana munofunga kuti rugwaro rwunotaura pasina maturo here kuti: Mweya wakagara mukati medu anochivira godo?

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Asi anopa nyasha huru; saka anoti: Mwari anopikisa vanozvikudza, asi anopa nyasha vanozvininipisa.

7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Naizvozvo muzviise pasi kuna Mwari; pikisai dhiabhorosi, zvino achakutizai.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Swederai kuna Mwari, naiye achaswedera kwamuri; shambai maoko, vatadzi, uye muchenure moyo, imwi vemoyo miviri.

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Tambudzikai uye chemai uye rirai; kuseka kwenyu ngakushandurwe kuve kuchema, nemufaro uve kusuruvara.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, uye achakusimudzai.

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.

Musareverana zvakaipa, hama. Anorevera hama zvakaipa uye kutonga hama yake, anorevera murairo zvakaipa, nekutonga murairo; zvino kana uchitonga murairo, hausi muiti wemurairo, asi mutongi.

12 Only one is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Umwe chete ndiye mutemi wemurairo, anogona kuponesa nekuparadza; iwe ndiwe ani anotonga umwe?

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."

Uyai ikozvino imwi munoti: Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta rekuti, tigogarako gore rimwe, tigotengeserana, tigowana mubairo;

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.

imwi musingazivi zvamangwana. Nokuti upenyu hwenyu chii? Nokuti imhute inoonekwa nguva diki, ipapo ndokunyangarika.

15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

Pakuti muti: Kana Ishe achida, tichararamawo, tigoita ichi kana icho.

16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Asi ikozvino munozvirumbidza pakuzvikudza kwenyu; kuzvirumbidza kwese kwakadai kwakaipa.

17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Naizvozvo anoziva kuita zvakanaka asingazviiti, chivi kwaari.