Jakobho 1
1 Jakobho, muranda waMwari newaIshe Jesu Kristu, kumarudzi gumi nemaviri ari mukupararira: Kwaziwai.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
2 Zvitorei semufaro wese, hama dzangu, kana muchiwira mumiedzo yakasiyana-siyana,
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
3 muchiziva kuti kuedzwa kwerutendo rwenyu kunobudisa kutsungirira;
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 asi kutsungirira ngakuve nebasa rakapedzeredzwa, kuti muve vakapedzeredzwa nekukwana, musingatairi pachinhu.
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 Uye kana umwe wenyu achishaiwa uchenjeri, ngaakumbire kuna Mwari, anopavhurira vese, uye asingatuki, zvino achadzipiwa.
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 Asi ngaakumbire murutendo, asiri asina chokwadi nechinhu; nokuti asina chokwadi wakaita sefungu regungwa rinosundwa nemhepo richidzungaidzwa.
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 Nokuti munhu uyu ngaarege kufunga kuti achagamuchira chinhu kuna Ishe.
For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
8 Murume ane moyo miviri anoshanduka-shanduka panzira dzake dzese.
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 Asi hama yakaderera ngaizvikudze pakukudzwa kwake;
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
10 nemufumi pakuderedzwa kwake; nokuti seruva reuswa achapfuura.
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
11 Nokuti zuva rinobuda pamwe nekupisa, ndokuomesa uswa, neruva rahwo rinowira pasi, nekunaka kwechimiro chahwo kwakaparara; saizvozvowo mufumi achabvuruvara panzira dzake.
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 Wakaropafadzwa munhu anotsungirira pamuedzo; nokuti kana atendwa, achagamuchira korona yeupenyu, Ishe yaakavimbisa kune vanomuda.
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 Kusava nemunhu anoti achiidzwa ati: Ndinoidzwa naMwari; nokuti Mwari haagoni kuedzwa nechakaipa, naiye amene haaidzi munhu.
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 Asi umwe neumwe anoidzwa, kana achikwehwa nekuchiva kwake pachake, nekukwezwa.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
15 Ipapo kuchiva kana kwarema kunozvara chivi; nechivi kana chaperedzerwa, chinobereka rufu.
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
16 Musanyengerwa, hama dzangu dzinodikanwa.
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
17 Chipo chese chakanaka nechipiwa chese chakaperedzerwa chinobva kumusoro, chichiburuka kubva kuna Baba vezviedza, navo pasina kupinduka, kana mumvuri wekushanduka.
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 Nekuda kwake wakabereka isu neshoko rechokwadi, kuti isu tive sechibereko chekutanga chezvisikwa zvake.
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 Naizvozvo, hama dzangu dzinodiwa, munhu umwe neumwe ngaave anokurumidza pakunzwa, anononoka pakutaura, anononoka pakutsamwa;
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
20 nokuti kutsamwa kwemunhu hakuiti kururama kwaMwari.
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
21 Naizvozvo bvisai zvinyangadzo zvese nekuwandisa kwekuipa, mugamuchire nemoyo munyoro shoko rakabatanidzwa pamuri, rinogona kuponesa mweya yenyu.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 Asi ivai vaiti veshoko, uye kwete vanzwi chete, muchizvinyengera pachenyu.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23 Nokuti kana umwe ari munzwi weshoko uye asiri muiti, iye wakafanana nemunhu anoona chiso chake chechisikirwo muchionioni;
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 nokuti anozviona pachake, ndokuenda, ndokukanganwa pakarepo kuti wanga akadini.
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 Asi uyo anotarisisa mumurairo wakaperedzerwa werusununguko ndokurambirirapo, uyo asati ari munzwi anokanganwa asi muiti webasa, uyu acharopafadzwa pakuita kwake.
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 Kana umwe pakati penyu achiti anotenda, kana asingadzori rurimi rwake, asi achinyengera moyo wake, chitendero cheuyu hachina maturo.
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 Chitendero chakachena chisina kusvibiswa pamberi paMwari naBaba ndechichi: Kufambira nherera nechirikadzi pakutambudzika kwavo, azvichengete asina gwapa kubva kunyika.
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.
