James 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Ngondo na kukomana kwinu kuhuma koki? Kwihuma muminogo yinu yihakau ndi zezikomana mugati ya higa zinu.

2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Mnogela neju vindu na ndava muni mwipata lepi nambu mujitendekili hati kukoma. Mwilola wihu kupata vindu vyevavi navyu vangi nambu mukuvipata lepi ndi muvi na luhonda na komana. Mpata lepi chemwigana muni mukumuyupa lepi Chapanga.

3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Kavili, pemwiyupa mupata lepi ndava muni mwiyupa kwa maholo gahakau, mwiyupa ndava ya kuyukutisa mnogo winu.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Nyenye ndi vandu mwangasadikika ngati vakemi. Mwimanya lepi kuvya nkozi wa mulima uwu ndi kuvya likoko wa Chapanga? Mundu yoyoha mweigana kuvya nkozi wa mulima ivya likoko wa Chapanga.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Mkoto kuholalela kuvya Mayandiku Gamsopi gijova malovi gawaka, pegijova, “Mpungu mweavikiwi na Chapanga avi na wihu uvaha ndava yitu ya Mpungu Msopi mweamvikii mugati yitu.”

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Nambu, ubwina wetipewa na Chapanga una makakala neju, ngati chegijova Mayandiku, “Chapanga akuvatova vevimeka nambu akuvapela vangolongondi ubwina waki.”

7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Hinu, mujivika pahi ya Chapanga, mumbela Setani ndi yati akuvatila.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Mvya papipi na Chapanga, ni mwene yati ibwela papipi na nyenye. Msanja mawoko ginu nyenye mwemkumbudila Chapanga! Mjinyambisa mitima yinu vahomela nyenye!

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Mvya ngolongondi, mvemba na kuwombeleza, luheku lwinu luvya kuvemba, kuheka kwinu kuvya ungolongondi.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Mvya ngolongondi palongolo ya BAMBU, na mwene yati akuvakwiha.

11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Valongo, mkoto kulungamilana nyenye kwa nyenye. Mwakumjova mlongo waki na kumhamula, akuijova na kuihamula malagizu. Ngati ukuyihamula malagizu hinu veve ukuyidakila lepi nambu ukuyihamula.

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Chapanga mwene ndi mwavikili malagizu na kuhamula vandu. Ndi mwene ndu mweihotola kusangula vandu na kukoma. Hinu, veve ndi yani hati uvahamula vayaku?

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

Hinu, myuwanila mwemjova, “Lelu amala chilau yati tihamba kumuji nunuyu na kutama kwenuko mwaka woha kugulisa vindu na kupata mashonga.”

14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Nyenye mmanyili lepi gegihumila chilau muwumi winu! Nyenye ngati lyohi lelihumalila lukumbi ndu na kuyaga.

15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Mganikiwa kujova naha. “BAMBU akagana yati titama na kukita chenichi amala chila.”

16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Nambu hinu mwimeka na kujilumba. Kumeka kwenuko ndi uhakau.

17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Nambu, mundu yoyoha mweamanyili lijambu labwina leiganikiwa kukitwa, nambu ikita lepi ndi akumbudila Chapanga.