Yakobo 3
1 Valongo vangu, vamahele vinu vakotoka kuvya vawula. Ngati chammanyili, tete vawula yati tipata uhamula uvaha kuliku vangi
Not, many teachers, become ye, my brethren, knowing that, a severer sentence, shall ye receive;
2 Tete tavoha tibuda munjila ndalindali. Nambu ngati mundu ibuda lepi mukujova, mwenuyo ndi akangili ihotola kujilongasa mwene mumatendu gaki goha.
For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even the whole body.
3 Tete tivika chipandi cha lyuma chidebe chechikungiwi nyosi mumlomo wa falasi, muni vatiyidikila, na kwa kuhuta tihotola kumlongosa kwokoha kwetigana.
Now, if, the horses bits, into their mouths, we thrust, to the end they may be yielding to us, their whole body also, do we turn about.
4 Mewawa na watu, hati ngati uvaha neju, na ukang'wa na chimbungululu chikali nambu yihotoleka kung'anambuswa na chipandi chidebe cha ubau, na kuhamba kwokoha mgendesa watu kweigana
Lo! the ships also, large as they are, and, by rough winds, driven along, are turned about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the steersman inclineth.
5 Mewawa, lulimi pamonga ndi chiungu chidebe cha higa, nambu chihotola kumekela mambu gakulu neju. Holalela motu udebe chauhotola kutinyisa dasi yivaha.
So, also, the tongue, is, a little member, and yet, of great things, maketh boast. Lo! how small a fire, kindleth, how great a forest;
6 Mewawa lulimi ngati motu umemili uhakau, wenu ndi pandu padebe muhiga nambu wileta uhakau muhiga yoha. Ulimi usopa motu wumi witu woha kuhuma kuvelekewa mbaka kufwa. Kwa motu wewihuma kuligodi litali langali mwishu. (Geenna g1067)
And, the tongue, is a fire, —[as], the world of unrighteousness, the tongue, becometh fixed among our members, that which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the wheel of our natural life, and is set on fire, by gehenna! (Geenna g1067)
7 Mundu ihotola kufuya hinyama na viumbi vyoha, hinyama ya mdahi, hidege, mayoka na viumbi vya mmanji.
For, every nature—both of wild beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of things in the sea, is to be tamed, and hath been tamed, by the human nature;
8 Nambu kawaka mundu mweahotwili kufuya lulimi. Lulimi ndi chindu chihakau, chilongoseka lepi na chimemili chimatila yeyikoma.
But, the tongue, none of mankind can, tame, —A restless mischief! Full of deadly poison
9 Kwa lulimi tete tikumsengusa BAMBU na Dadi witu. Kwa lulimi lulolo tikuvapela likoto vandu, vevawumbiwi kwa luhumu wa Chapanga.
Therewith, are we blessing our Lord and Father, and, therewith, we are cursing the men who, after the likeness of God, have been brought into being!
10 Malovi ga kumotisa na ga likoto gihuma mumlomo umonga. Valongo vangu mambu ago giganikiwa lepi kuvya chenicho.
Out of the same mouth, come forth blessing and cursing! Not meet, my brethren, for, these things, thus, to be coming to pass!
11 Wu, chinyepa chimonga chihotola kuhumisa manji geginyong'onya na gegivava?
Doth, the fountain, out of the same opening, teem forth the sweet and the bitter?
12 Valongo, wu, mkongo wa mtini uhotola kupambika zeituni? Amala mkongo wa zeituni uhotola kupambika tini? Mewawa chinyepa cha manji gana mwinyu nakuhotola kuhumisa manji geginyong'onya.
Is it possible, my brethren, for, a fig-tree, to produce, olives, or, a vine, figs? Neither can, salt, water yield, sweet.
13 Wu, yani mweavi na luhala na umanya pagati yinu? Hinu alangisa kwa kukita matendu gabwina muwumi waki gegikitika kwa ungolongondi na luhala.
Who is wise and well-instructed among you? Let him show, out of his comely behaviour, his works, in meekness of wisdom.
14 Nambu ngati mitima yinu yimemili wihu, kuvahakalila vangi na kujigana wamwene, hinu mkoto kufiya uchakaka kwa kujilumba na kujova udese.
But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!
15 Luhala ngati lwenulo nakuhuma kunani kwa Chapanga, nambu pamulima na lwa chimundu na lwa Setani.
This wisdom is not one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal!
16 Muni popoha pepavi na wihu na kujigana mwavene, pavi na chitututu na uhakau woha.
For, where jealousy and rivalry are, there, are anarchy and every ignoble deed.
17 Nambu luhala lweluhuma kunani kwa Chapanga hoti yinyambili, yigana uteke, na kuvagana vandu, yimemili lipyana na matendu gabwina, kawaka kubagula amala uhomela.
But, the wisdom from above, is—first pure, then peaceable, reasonable, easy to be entreated, fraught with mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.
18 Vandu vevigana uteke vikita mambu ga kuleta uteke kwa vandu vangi, chechihumila ndi kuvya vabwina palongolo ya Chapanga.
And, in harvest of righteousness, with peace, is sown by them that make peace.
