Jakobho 4
1 Kurwa nokukakavara pakati penyu kunobvepiko? Hakubvi pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa mukati menyu here?
From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Munoda chimwe chinhu asi hamuchiwani. Munouraya uye munochiva, asi hamugoni kuwana zvamunoda. Munokakavadzana uye munorwa. Hamuna chinhu, nokuti hamukumbiri Mwari.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Pamunokumbira, hamugamuchiri, nokuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti mugoshandisa zvamunowana pamafaro enyu.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
4 Imi vanhu voupombwe, hamuzivi kuti ushamwari nenyika hunovengana naMwari here? Ani naani anosarudza kushamwaridzana nenyika anova muvengi waMwari.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Munofunga kuti Rugwaro runotaura pasina here kuti mweya waakaita kuti ugare matiri unotishuva negodo guru?
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 Asi anotipa nyasha zhinji. Ndokusaka Rugwaro ruchiti: “Mwari anodzivisa vanozvikudza, asi anopa nyasha kuna vanozvininipisa.”
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Zviisei zvino, pasi paMwari. Dzivisai dhiabhori, uye achatiza kwamuri.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Swederai kuna Mwari uye iye achaswedera kwamuri. Shambai maoko enyu, imi vatadzi, uye munatse mwoyo yenyu, imi vane mwoyo miviri.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
9 Chemai, murire uye muungudze. Shandurai kuseka kwenyu kuve kuchema uye mufaro wenyu uve kusuwa.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
10 Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokusimudzirai.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 Hama dzangu, musarevana. Ani naani anoreva hama yake kana kumutonga anotaura achirwa nomurayiro uye achiutonga. Kana uchitonga murayiro, iwe hauzi kuuchengeta, asi ugere uchitonga uri pauri.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 Panongova noMupi woMurayiro noMutongi mumwe chete, iye anokwanisa kuponesa kana kuparadza. Asi iwe, ndiwe aniko kuti utonge muvakidzani wako?
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 Zvino teererai, imi munoti, “Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta iri kana iro, tinopedza gore tiriko, tichiita basa uye tichiwana mari.”
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Asi, imi hamutongozivi zvichaitika mangwana. Upenyu hwenyu chiiko? Muri mhute inoonekwa nguva duku uye ipapo yonyangarika.
Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15 Asi, munofanira kuti, “Kana Ishe achida, tichararama tigoita ichi nechocho.”
For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 Asi zvino munozvikudza uye mune manyawi. Kuzvikudza kwakadaro kwakaipa.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Ani naani, zvino, anoziva zvakanaka zvaanofanira kuita akasazviita, ari kutadza.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
