James 4
1 Now I will tell you why you are fighting among yourselves and quarreling with each other [RHQ]. It is [RHQ] because each of you wants to do evil things [PRS]. You keep on wanting to do things that are not [what God wants you to do].
Nalah uva kinah le kidel ho hi ipia kon ham? Nasung uva ngaichat dihlou ho chu kidouva hilou ham?
2 There are things that you [very much] desire to have, but you do not get [those things, so] you [want to] kill [HYP] [those who hinder you from getting them]. You desire what [other people have], but you are unable to get [what you desire, so] you quarrel and fight [with one another] [HYP]. You do not have [what you desire] because you do not ask [God for it].
Naneilouvu chu na deiyun, hichu mutei na gongun chutia na got nalamun nathat jiuve. Mi dang thilnei nathangseuvin, hinla na neithei pouvin, hiti chun nanghon gal nasatun amahoa kona lahdoh pehding na gouve. Ahijeng vang'in, nanghon nadeiyu chu nanei theipouve, Pathen koma nathum loujeh u ahi.
3 [And even when] you do ask [him], he does not give you [what you ask for] because you are asking for the wrong reason. [You are asking for things] in order that you may use them just to (enjoy yourselves/make yourselves happy).
Chule nathum jeng vangun namudeh pouve, ajeh chu nalung gonu chu abona dihlou ahi-nang ho nopsahna ding bou na deijeh u ahi.
4 [Like] a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, you [are being unfaithful to God and not obeying him any more] [MET]. Those who are behaving as evil people do [MTY] (OR, Those who love [the evil pleasures of] this world) are hostile toward God. Perhaps you do not realize that [RHQ]. So those who decide to act as evil people do [MTY] become enemies of God.
Nangho jonbolteho! Vannoito kigolvop theina hin Pathen melma a nasemu ahi geldoh lou nahiu vem? Seikit inge: Nangho Vannoito na kigolvop uva ahileh, Pathen melma a kisema nahiu ahitai.
5 (Surely you remember that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he eagerly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only!/Do you think that it is for no reason that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he strongly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only?) [RHQ] God has a reason for desiring that.
Pathen Thubun Pathen Lhagao isunguva cheng hin thangsetna a eidip dimu ahi kiti hi ipi nagel uvem?
6 [It is because] he is kind [to us and he] wants very much to help us. That is why (someone said/[King Solomon] wrote) [in the Scriptures], “God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble.”
Hinlah Ama hin hitobang lung gitlou ngaichatna idou jouna dinguva lungsetna eichan cheh joh u ahi. Pathen Thubun, “Pathen in akiletsah ho adouvin, akineosah ho akhoto'e,” ati.
7 So submit yourselves to God. (Resist the devil/Refuse to do what the devil wants), and [as a result] he will run away from you.
Hitichun, Pathen masanga kineosah un. Diabol chu douvun chutileh nanghoa konin jamdoh tante.
8 Come near [spiritually] to God, and [as a result] he will come near to you. You who are sinners, stop doing what is wrong, and do only what is good [SYN, MET]. You who cannot decide [whether you will] ([commit yourselves to God/obey God completely]), stop thinking wrong thoughts, and think only pure thoughts [MTY].
Pathen kom nailut un, chutileh Pathen in nahin nailut dingu ahi. Nakhut u sutheng un, michonse nangho; nalungu sutheng un, ajeh chu nangho Pathen le vannoi kikah ah nalungthimu akikehsotai.
9 Be sorrowful and weep/mourn [DOU] [because of the wrong things that you have done]. Do not laugh [DOU], ([enjoying only what you selfishly/enjoying only what you yourselves]) [desire]. Instead, be sad [because you have done what is wrong].
Nathilbol chunguva kisihna mitlhi longdoh hen. Lungkhamna le lunghemna tahbeh soh hen. Nuina sangin kana, chule kipana sangin lhasetna sohhen.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and [as a result] he will honor you.
Pakai masanga kineosah un, chuteng Aman jabolna'a nadopsang dingu ahi.
11 My fellow believers, stop saying evil things about one another, [because] those who say something evil about a fellow believer and [are therefore] condemning [one who is like] a brother [to them] are really speaking against the law [that God gave us to obey]. [In this law, God commanded] [MTY] [us to love others], and those who say evil things about fellow believers, [it is as though] they are saying that we do not have to do what [God] commanded. If you [(sg)] say that you do not have to do what God commanded, you [(sg)] are not obeying God’s law. Instead, you [(sg)] are claiming that you [have the authority] to condemn [others].
Kasopi deitahte, khat in khat dounan thuse seihih un. Nangho naki oimo touva chule khat in khat chung thu natan u ahileh Pathen danthu chu oimoa chule athutana napanu ahitai. Hinla naboldiu dol chu danthu najui diu bou ahin, athutan ding nahi lou u ahi.
12 [But in fact], there is only one who [has the authority to] tell [people] what is right to do and to condemn [them, and that is God]. He alone is able to save [people] or to destroy people. [So], (you [(sg)] certainly have no right to decide how God should punish other people./who are you to decide how God should punish other people?) [RHQ]
Danthu pea pang Pathen bou chu Thutanpa ahi. Ama bou chu huhhingthei ahilouleh sumangthei hiya ahi. Achutileh, nangman naheng nakom chunga thutan theina ipi thu naneiyem?
13 [Some of you] are [arrogantly] saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city. We will spend a year there and we will buy and sell things and earn a lot of money.” Now, you listen to me!
Tun veuvin, “Tuni ahilouleh jing tengleh khopi khat a gacheu hitin chule chuche mun a chun kum khat ga-umu hite. Chumuna chun sumkol gakiveiyu hitin chule sumpung holuhite,” natiuve.
14 [You should not talk like that, because] you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you do not know [how long] you will live! Your life [is short] [MET], [like] a mist that appears for a short time and then disappears.
Jing nikhoa itobang hinkho naman diu nahet uvem? Nahin khou chu jingkah twimei tobang ahi-hikoma chomkhat uma, chujoule chemang tobang ahi.
15 Instead of [what you are saying], you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”
Gahsei dia pha chu, “Pakaiyin eidei peh u ahileh eiho hingu hitin chule hiche ahilouleh khuche bolu hite,” tiuvin.
16 But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you arrogantly [plan to do]. Your boasting like that is evil.
Achuti louva natoh gon uva nakiletsah piuva ahileh hitobang kiletsah a thusei chu phalouva ahi.
17 So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, [but] he does not do it, he is sinning.
Geldohun, nanghon nabol dingu chu ipi ahi henasa'a nabol lou u chu chonset ahi.
