James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Inga nkondo shilafumunga kupeyo? Inga kutotekeshana pakati penu kulafumunga kupeyo? Ntepasa shilafumunga mu lunkumbwa lwa mubili, ebilalwananga mulinjamwe?
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t 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, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Kayi mwasenganga, nkamukute kutambula, pakwinga miyeyo yenu yaipa. Mukute kusenga bintu kwambeti musebenseshe mubintu byalunkumbwa lwakumubili.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of 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 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Sena mulayeyeti cikute kwamba Mabala nibwepeshi cakwambeti, “Mushimu Lesa ngwabika mulinjafwe utusuni kayi ukute bufuba palinjafwe?”
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Nomba necikabeco, nkumbo sha Lesa nishangofu. Mbuli Mabala ncalambangeti, “Lesa nkasuni beshikulisumpula, beshikulicepesha embwakute kupa nkumbo.”
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist 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. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Kamuseng'enani kuli Lesa, neye nakaseng'ene kuli njamwe. Amwe beshibwipishi! Sambani kumakasa. Swepeshani myoyo yenu amwe bandemishibili!
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Kamulitibuka mobene, nyumfwani nsoni, kayi lilani misoshi. Kuseka kwenu kube kulila, kayi kukondwa kwenu kube nsoni.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Mwalicepesha kuli Lesa, neye nakamusumpule.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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.
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 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Lesa eukute kupa Milawo kayi emomboloshi. Endiye wela kupulusha kayi nekushina. Njobe bani olomboloshonga munobe?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
Lino kamunyumfwani amwe mulambangeti, “Lelo nambi Lilo” Tukenga kumunshi unene wakuti wakuti, twenga twikaleko caka cakabumbulu, katwinsa makwebo nekucana mali angi.
14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Nkamukute kwishiba ceti cikenshike lilo. Inga buyumi bwenu bulyeconi? Mulyeti bwishi bukute kubonekowa kwacindi cing'ana nekushimangana.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Amwe mwela kwambeti, “Mwami Lesa akatusuminisha kuba nebuyumi nitukense ici ne ico”
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Nomba pacino cindi mulalisumpulunga, kulisumpula kulico kwaipa.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Muntu eshiba bintu byaina byakwinsa, nomba ubula kubinsa ukute mulandu.
