James 4
1 What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Isn’t it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
Inga nkondo shilafumunga kupeyo? Inga kutotekeshana pakati penu kulafumunga kupeyo? Ntepasa shilafumunga mu lunkumbwa lwa mubili, ebilalwananga mulinjamwe?
2 You crave, yet do not have, so you commit murder, so You covet, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Mukute kuyanda bintu nsombi bikute kumutaika, ecebo cakendi mukute kuyanda kushina, mukute kuyandishisha bintu, nsombi nkamukute kubicana, neco mukute kulondola nekulwana. Nkamukute kucana mbyomulayandanga pakwinga nkamukute kusenga Lesa kwambeti amupe.
3 You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose – to spend what you get on your pleasures.
Kayi mwasenganga, nkamukute kutambula, pakwinga miyeyo yenu yaipa. Mukute kusenga bintu kwambeti musebenseshe mubintu byalunkumbwa lwakumubili.
4 Unfaithful people! Don’t you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
Amwe bantu babula lushomo, sena nkamucisheti cibusa ne cishi nikuba mulwani ne Lesa? Neco muntu layandanga cibusa ne cishi layandanga kuba mulwani wa Lesa.
5 Do you suppose scripture means nothing when it says, ‘Envy results from the longings of the spirit which God has implanted within you?’
Sena mulayeyeti cikute kwamba Mabala nibwepeshi cakwambeti, “Mushimu Lesa ngwabika mulinjafwe utusuni kayi ukute bufuba palinjafwe?”
6 But he gives us greater grace; and that is why it says, – ‘God opposes the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’
Nomba necikabeco, nkumbo sha Lesa nishangofu. Mbuli Mabala ncalambangeti, “Lesa nkasuni beshikulisumpula, beshikulicepesha embwakute kupa nkumbo.”
7 Therefore submit to God. Stand up to the devil, and he will flee from you.
Neco kamulibombeleshani kuli Lesa, tinganani ne Satana, neye nakamufwambe.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillators!
Kamuseng'enani kuli Lesa, neye nakaseng'ene kuli njamwe. Amwe beshibwipishi! Sambani kumakasa. Swepeshani myoyo yenu amwe bandemishibili!
9 Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
Kamulitibuka mobene, nyumfwani nsoni, kayi lilani misoshi. Kuseka kwenu kube kulila, kayi kukondwa kwenu kube nsoni.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Mwalicepesha kuli Lesa, neye nakamusumpule.
11 Do not disparage one another, friends. The person who disparages others, or passes judgment on them, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.
Mobanse bame, kamutambananga byaipa umo ne munendi, nambi komboloshana. Mwenseco mulomboloshonga Milawo ya Lesa. Womboloshanga Milawo ya Lesa ekwambeti nkolenshinga cilambanga Milawo, ulabanga momboloshi.
12 There is only one lawgiver and judge – he who has the power both to save and to destroy. So then who are you to pass judgment on your neighbor?
Lesa eukute kupa Milawo kayi emomboloshi. Endiye wela kupulusha kayi nekushina. Njobe bani olomboloshonga munobe?
13 Listen to me, you who say ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money,’
Lino kamunyumfwani amwe mulambangeti, “Lelo nambi Lilo” Tukenga kumunshi unene wakuti wakuti, twenga twikaleko caka cakabumbulu, katwinsa makwebo nekucana mali angi.
14 yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Nkamukute kwishiba ceti cikenshike lilo. Inga buyumi bwenu bulyeconi? Mulyeti bwishi bukute kubonekowa kwacindi cing'ana nekushimangana.
15 Instead you should say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’
Amwe mwela kwambeti, “Mwami Lesa akatusuminisha kuba nebuyumi nitukense ici ne ico”
16 But as it is, you are boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
Nomba pacino cindi mulalisumpulunga, kulisumpula kulico kwaipa.
17 The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it – that is sin in them.
Muntu eshiba bintu byaina byakwinsa, nomba ubula kubinsa ukute mulandu.
