Jake 1
1 Ngai Jake, mosali na Nzambe mpe na Nkolo Yesu-Klisto; Epai ya mabota zomi na mibale oyo epalangana kati na biloko: Napesi bino mbote.
Iames a seruant of God, and of the Lord Iesus Christ, to the twelue Tribes, which are scattered abroade, salutation.
2 Bandeko na ngai, bomona lokola likambo ya esengo, lolenge nyonso ya komekama oyo bozali kokutana na yango.
My brethren, count it exceeding ioy, when ye fall into diuers tentations,
3 Pamba te boyebi malamu ete komekama ya kondima na bino ebotaka kokanga motema.
Knowing that ye trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,
4 Nzokande kokanga motema na bino esengeli te kosuka na nzela mpo ete bokoma bato bakemba mpe bakoka kati na kondima, bato oyo bazangi pamela.
And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect and entier, lacking nothing.
5 Soki moko kati na bino azangi bwanya, tika ete asenga yango epai ya Nzambe oyo akopesa ye yango; pamba te Nzambe apesaka moto nyonso na motema malamu mpe na kopamela te.
If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, and reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.
6 Kasi asengeli kosenga na kondima, na kotia tembe te; pamba te moto oyo atiaka tembe azali lokola mbonge ya ebale oyo mopepe ezali koningisa mpe kobwaka epai na epai.
But let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for hee that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the winde, and caried away.
7 Moto ya ndenge wana atia motema te ete akoki kozwa eloko kowuta na Nkolo:
Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.
8 azali moto ya mitema mibale, moto oyo akangamaka na likanisi moko te na nyonso oyo asalaka.
A double minded man is vnstable in all his waies.
9 Tika ete ndeko oyo akelela asepela mpo ete Nzambe akotombola ye,
Let the brother of lowe degree reioyce in that he is exalted:
10 mpe oyo azali mozwi asepela mpo ete Nzambe akokitisa ye; pamba te mozwi akoleka lokola fololo ya elanga.
Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.
11 Ndenge fololo ekawukaka, ekweyaka mpe ebungisaka kitoko na yango na tango ya moyi makasi, ndenge wana mpe mozwi akolimwa kati na misala na ye nyonso.
For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.
12 Esengo na moto oyo akangaka motema na tango ya komekama! Pamba te sima na ye kolonga komekama, akozwa motole ya bomoi, oyo Nzambe alakaki na bato oyo balingaka Ye.
Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him.
13 Tika ete moto moko te, liboso ya komekama, aloba: « Nzambe nde azali kotindika ngai na kosala mabe. » Pamba te mabe ekoki te kotindika Nzambe na mabe, mpe Nzambe atindikaka moto moko te na kosala mabe.
Let no man say when hee is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not bee tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.
14 Kasi moto nyonso atindikamaka na mabe soki abendami mpe akangami na motambo ya baposa mabe ya nzoto na ye moko.
But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.
15 Bongo soki baposa mabe yango ekoli kati na moto, ebotaka lisumu; mpe lisumu ememaka na kufa.
Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.
16 Bandeko balingami, bomikosa te:
Erre not, my deare brethren.
17 bolamu nyonso mpe likabo nyonso ya kitoko ewutaka kaka na Likolo, epai ya Tata ya pole, oyo, kati na Ye, molili ezalaka te, mpe abongwanaka te.
Euery good giuing, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, and commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whome is no variablenes, neither shadow of turning.
18 Akomisaki biso bana na Ye na nzela ya Liloba ya bosolo, na mokano na Ye moko, mpo ete tozwa esika ya liboso kati na bikelamu na Ye nyonso.
Of his owne will begate hee vs with the woorde of trueth, that we shoulde be as the first fruites of his creatures.
19 Bandeko balingami, bosimba likambo oyo: tika ete moto nyonso awelelaka koyoka, kasi awelelaka te koloba mpe kosilika;
Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.
20 pamba te kanda ya moto ekokisaka te makambo ya sembo na miso ya Nzambe.
For the wrath of man doeth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God.
21 Yango wana, bobwaka makambo nyonso ya bosoto mpe misala nyonso ya mabe, bondima na komikitisa Liloba oyo elonamaki kati na mitema na bino, pamba te ezali na nguya ya kobikisa bino.
Wherefore lay apart all filthinesse, and superfluitie of maliciousnesse, and receiue with meekenes the word that is graffed in you, which is able to saue your soules.
22 Botiaka na misala Liloba na Nzambe; kasi bosukaka kaka te na koyoka yango, soki te bokomikosa bino moko na pamba.
And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers onely, deceiuing your owne selues.
23 Moto oyo ayokaka Liloba kasi atiaka yango te na misala, akokani na moto oyo amitali na talatala
For if any heare the woorde, and doe it not, he is like vnto a man, that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse.
24 mpe, sima na ye komitala, akei mpe, kaka na tango yango, abosani ndenge azali.
For when he hath considered himselfe, hee goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what maner of one he was.
25 Nzokande moto oyo amipesaka na koyekola mobeko oyo ekoka na nyonso mpe epesaka bonsomi, bongo atosaka yango tango nyonso, asukaka kaka na koyoka te, kasi atiaka na misala: moto yango akozala moto ya esengo na nyonso oyo akosala.
But who so looketh in the perfect Lawe of libertie, and continueth therein, hee not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the woorke, shalbe blessed in his deede.
26 Moto oyo akanisaka ete asambelaka Nzambe, kasi ayebaka te kobatela lolemo na ye, azali komikosa ye moko, mpe kosambela na ye ezali na tina te.
If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.
27 Kosambela ya solo mpe ya peto na miso ya Nzambe, Tata na biso, ezali: kosunga bana bitike mpe basi bakufisa mibali, kati na bapasi na bango, mpe komibatela peto liboso ya makambo ya mokili.
Pure religion and vndefiled before God, euen the Father, is this, to visite the fatherlesse, and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world.
