Yakobo 1
1 Yakobo mmanda ba Nnongo ni Ngwana witu Yesu Kristu, kwa makabila komi ni ibele gagatawanyike, salaam.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
2 Mubalange kwamba pulaika muno, alongo bango mwanakamupeta mumatatizo ga kila aina.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
3 mutange panga ipalilwa imani yinu ipalae pumiliya.
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 Muleke pumilia ili mwikamilishe kasi yake, ili muweze komala kikamilipu, bila pungukiwa ni loloti.
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 Lelo mana mundu kati yinu apala hekima ailobe kuoma kwa Nnongo, ywembe piya kwa wakati ni bila benda kwa boti babannoba, na apala kwapeya kwa hekima.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 Lakini mulobe kwa imani, bila shaka, kwa mana ywembe ywabile ni shaka ni kati mawimbi mubahari, tolelwa na upepo notaikuilwa kuno ni kuno.
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
7 Kwa hakika mundu ywoo kana aweze panga apala pokelelwa likowe lyake mboka kwa Ngwana;
For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
8 Mundu yoo ai'na nia ibele, imara kwaa mundela yake yoti.
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 Mwalongo maskini apalikwa kwipuna kwa yima kwake kunani,
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
10 Muda wowo mwalongo tajiri kwo nyenyekea kwake, kwa mana alwambokeka kati liloba lya mmende lya mung'unda mwapetaa.
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
11 Lisoba lilwapita na lyoto liyotinia yumea michee, na lisoba tomboka n goloka kwake waha. Nganyonyo bandu matajiri bapilya muliyengo lyabe.
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
12 Atibarikiwa mundu yolo ywapumilia majaribu, na mwana baada ya shinda jaribu lee, apala pokya taji ya ukoto, yaibile itiahidiwa kwa balo babampindile Nnongo.
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
13 Mundu ywoywoti apalikwa kwaa baya paajaribiwa, “Jaribu leni liboka kwa Nnongo,” kwa mana Nnongo ajaribiwa kwaa ni ubou, ni Nnongo mwene amjaribu kwaa yeyoti.
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14 Kila mundu ujaribiwa ni tamaa yake mbaya yaimshawishi ni kummuta kunanipa.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
15 Baada ya sambi potwa ndumbo sambi loelekwa, ni yolo sambi komala muno muno, yomokya kwake ni kiwo.
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
16 mwalongo bango mwapendwa, kana mukongelwe.
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
17 Kila zawadi inoyite ni kila zawadi yabile kamilifu iboka kunani, iuluka pae kuoma kwa Tate ba nuru, Habadilika kwaa kamwe kati kiwili mwakibadilika.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
18 Nnongo atikuchawa kutupeya twenga ukoti pitya Neno lya ukweli, ili tuwese kuba ubelekwi wa kwanza nkati ya iumbe yake.
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
19 Mutangite lee, mwalongo bango, Kila yumo apalikwa abe mwepesi wo yowa, nga mwepesi kwaa longela wala kasilika.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
20 Kwa mana hasira ya mundu yaweza kwaa kupanga haki ya Nnongo.
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
21 kwa nyo mubeke kutalu uchapu wa sambi ni ubaya woti wabile sehemu yoyoti, na kwa nyenyekea mulipoki likowe lyalipendilwe nkati yinu, ambalo libile ni uwezo wokoa roho yinu.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 Mulikengame likowe kana muliyowe bai. mwikonga nafsi yinu mwabene.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23 Kwa mana kati yoyoti ywaliyowa likowe bila kulipangya kazi ni sawa ni
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
24 mundu ywailola kuminyo yake halisi mu'kilolo. Aitasimini kuminyo yake, na kuboka na baada ya muda mwipi libalya mwaabile.
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 Lelo mundu yoo ywailola kwo uangalifu saliya toti, saliya huru no yendelya kuiheshimu, kana iakamwi kwa sababu ywembe ywa mundu wo'sahau, mundu yoo alowa barikiwa mana aipangite.
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
26 Mana mundu yeyoti alwawasa mwene panga ni mundu wa dini, lakini awesa kwaa kuutawala lulemi lwake, haukonga mwoyo wake ni dini yake ni yabule.
If anyone amongst you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
27 Dini yaibile safi ni iharibike kwaa nnonge ya Nnongo witu ni Tate nga yee: kuasaidia yatima ni ajane mu'mateso yabe, no kuilinda mwene ni ufisadi wa dunia.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
