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.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 Bandeko na ngai, bomona lokola likambo ya esengo, lolenge nyonso ya komekama oyo bozali kokutana na yango.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Pamba te boyebi malamu ete komekama ya kondima na bino ebotaka kokanga motema.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh 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.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting 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 lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given 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 ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 Moto ya ndenge wana atia motema te ete akoki kozwa eloko kowuta na Nkolo:
For let not that man think that he shall receive 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 unstable in all his ways.
9 Tika ete ndeko oyo akelela asepela mpo ete Nzambe akotombola ye,
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 mpe oyo azali mozwi asepela mpo ete Nzambe akokitisa ye; pamba te mozwi akoleka lokola fololo ya elanga.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass 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 the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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 the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love 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 he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, 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 every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Bongo soki baposa mabe yango ekoli kati na moto, ebotaka lisumu; mpe lisumu ememaka na kufa.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Bandeko balingami, bomikosa te:
Do not err, my beloved 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.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, 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 own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Bandeko balingami, bosimba likambo oyo: tika ete moto nyonso awelelaka koyoka, kasi awelelaka te koloba mpe kosilika;
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 pamba te kanda ya moto ekokisaka te makambo ya sembo na miso ya Nzambe.
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness 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 filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 Botiaka na misala Liloba na Nzambe; kasi bosukaka kaka te na koyoka yango, soki te bokomikosa bino moko na pamba.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 Moto oyo ayokaka Liloba kasi atiaka yango te na misala, akokani na moto oyo amitali na talatala
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 mpe, sima na ye komitala, akei mpe, kaka na tango yango, abosani ndenge azali.
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man 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 whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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 among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
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 undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
