James 4
1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] from your lusts that war in your members?
Kurwa nokukakavara pakati penyu kunobvepiko? Hakubvi pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa mukati menyu here?
2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Munoda chimwe chinhu asi hamuchiwani. Munouraya uye munochiva, asi hamugoni kuwana zvamunoda. Munokakavadzana uye munorwa. Hamuna chinhu, nokuti hamukumbiri Mwari.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
Pamunokumbira, hamugamuchiri, nokuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti mugoshandisa zvamunowana pamafaro enyu.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Imi vanhu voupombwe, hamuzivi kuti ushamwari nenyika hunovengana naMwari here? Ani naani anosarudza kushamwaridzana nenyika anova muvengi waMwari.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Munofunga kuti Rugwaro runotaura pasina here kuti mweya waakaita kuti ugare matiri unotishuva negodo guru?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
Asi anotipa nyasha zhinji. Ndokusaka Rugwaro ruchiti: “Mwari anodzivisa vanozvikudza, asi anopa nyasha kuna vanozvininipisa.”
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Zviisei zvino, pasi paMwari. Dzivisai dhiabhori, uye achatiza kwamuri.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double-minded.
Swederai kuna Mwari uye iye achaswedera kwamuri. Shambai maoko enyu, imi vatadzi, uye munatse mwoyo yenyu, imi vane mwoyo miviri.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
Chemai, murire uye muungudze. Shandurai kuseka kwenyu kuve kuchema uye mufaro wenyu uve kusuwa.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokusimudzirai.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Hama dzangu, musarevana. Ani naani anoreva hama yake kana kumutonga anotaura achirwa nomurayiro uye achiutonga. Kana uchitonga murayiro, iwe hauzi kuuchengeta, asi ugere uchitonga uri pauri.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Panongova noMupi woMurayiro noMutongi mumwe chete, iye anokwanisa kuponesa kana kuparadza. Asi iwe, ndiwe aniko kuti utonge muvakidzani wako?
13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain:
Zvino teererai, imi munoti, “Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta iri kana iro, tinopedza gore tiriko, tichiita basa uye tichiwana mari.”
14 Whereas ye know not what [will be] on the morrow: For what [is] your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Asi, imi hamutongozivi zvichaitika mangwana. Upenyu hwenyu chiiko? Muri mhute inoonekwa nguva duku uye ipapo yonyangarika.
15 Instead of that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Asi, munofanira kuti, “Kana Ishe achida, tichararama tigoita ichi nechocho.”
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Asi zvino munozvikudza uye mune manyawi. Kuzvikudza kwakadaro kwakaipa.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
Ani naani, zvino, anoziva zvakanaka zvaanofanira kuita akasazviita, ari kutadza.
