James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Kurwa nokukakavara pakati penyu kunobvepiko? Hakubvi pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa mukati menyu here?
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.
Munoda chimwe chinhu asi hamuchiwani. Munouraya uye munochiva, asi hamugoni kuwana zvamunoda. Munokakavadzana uye munorwa. Hamuna chinhu, nokuti hamukumbiri Mwari.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Pamunokumbira, hamugamuchiri, nokuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti mugoshandisa zvamunowana pamafaro enyu.
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.
Imi vanhu voupombwe, hamuzivi kuti ushamwari nenyika hunovengana naMwari here? Ani naani anosarudza kushamwaridzana nenyika anova muvengi waMwari.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Munofunga kuti Rugwaro runotaura pasina here kuti mweya waakaita kuti ugare matiri unotishuva negodo guru?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Asi anotipa nyasha zhinji. Ndokusaka Rugwaro ruchiti: “Mwari anodzivisa vanozvikudza, asi anopa nyasha kuna vanozvininipisa.”
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Zviisei zvino, pasi paMwari. Dzivisai dhiabhori, uye achatiza kwamuri.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Swederai kuna Mwari uye iye achaswedera kwamuri. Shambai maoko enyu, imi vatadzi, uye munatse mwoyo yenyu, imi vane mwoyo miviri.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Chemai, murire uye muungudze. Shandurai kuseka kwenyu kuve kuchema uye mufaro wenyu uve kusuwa.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokusimudzirai.
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.
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.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Panongova noMupi woMurayiro noMutongi mumwe chete, iye anokwanisa kuponesa kana kuparadza. Asi iwe, ndiwe aniko kuti utonge muvakidzani wako?
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.”
Zvino teererai, imi munoti, “Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta iri kana iro, tinopedza gore tiriko, tichiita basa uye tichiwana mari.”
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.
Asi, imi hamutongozivi zvichaitika mangwana. Upenyu hwenyu chiiko? Muri mhute inoonekwa nguva duku uye ipapo yonyangarika.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Asi, munofanira kuti, “Kana Ishe achida, tichararama tigoita ichi nechocho.”
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Asi zvino munozvikudza uye mune manyawi. Kuzvikudza kwakadaro kwakaipa.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Ani naani, zvino, anoziva zvakanaka zvaanofanira kuita akasazviita, ari kutadza.
