James 4

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

Hawn üngkhyüh ni ngtunnak ja ngvawknak naküt hin nangmi üngkhyüh a law ta. Nangmi üng angläta ngtunnak hin mlümlawknak ja nami hlükaweinak üngkhyüh lawki he ni.

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.

Nami hlüei am nami taeikia kyase khyang nami hnimki. Akdena nami hlüei am nami yaheikia kyase ngtun ngvawk nami pawhkie. Nami hlüei am nami yah khawh hin acuna phäh Pamhnam am nami kthäha phäh ni.

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

Nami ktaiyü üngpi am yah uki, isetiakyaküng, nami cungaih se lü nami mäta mlümlawknaka na sumei vaia nami kthäha phäh ni.

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.

Am sitihkia khyange! Khawmdek püiei hlünaki hin Pamhnama ye ni tia am nami ksingki aw. Khawmdeka püia nami thawn hlü üngta Pamhnama yea namimät nami thawnsaki ni.

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

Cangcim üng ngthungtak am ve tia käh ngaia, “Pamhnam naw a jah tak peta Ngmüimkhya cun naw akdena hlükaweinak am beki ni,” tia pyenki.

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

Lüpi Pamhnam naw a jah peta bäkhäknak hin kthamah bawki ni. Cangcim naw, “Camcahki Pamhnam naw jah mah lü mlung mhnemkie üng bäkhäknak jah peki ni.

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

Acuna kyase, namimät Pamhnam üng cuapa. Khawyai cän nami mah üng nang ning dawn ta khai ni.

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

Pamhnama vei nami cäh üng ani cun pi nami veia cäh law khai ni. Nangmi mkhyeki he, nami kut mthi ua! Limmakie nami mlung ngcimsak ua!

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

Pukse u, ngpyang lü kyap u: nami yaihnak cän kyahnaka nglatsak lü nami jenak pi helatnaka nglatsak ua!

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

Bawipa maa mlung nami mhnem üng ani naw ning jah jäksawn khai ni.

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.

Ka püie, khyangkce käh khinyaiei u. Nang naw Khritjan kce khinyaiei lü ngthu nami khyah üngta nangmi naw Thum cän ngthumkhyah lü nami khinyaieikie ni. Thum cän ngthu nami mkhyah üng Thum cän nami läklamkia am kya lü Thum ngthumkhyahkia ni nami kya ve.

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

Pamhnam däk ni Thum jah pe lü ngthumkhyahkia a kya ve. Ani naw jah küikyan lü jah mkhyüh khawhki ni. Khyangkce ngthumkhyah pet khai ta namimät ia nami ngaieikie ni.

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.”

“Tuhngawi am ani üng khawngawi mlüh mata cit lü kum mat bang ve vai lü kunpan pawh lü ngui khawhah mi sui vai u,” tikie naw tuha na ngai ua.

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.

Khawngawi nami sak ia thawn khai ti cun am ksing uki! Nangmi cun asäng po law lü khyük bekia mei khua mäi ni a law ta.

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

“Bawipa naw hlüei lü mi xün u ta cun mi pawh kawm u” ti lü nami pyen vaia ni a kya ve.

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

Lüpi atuha camcah lü nami awhcahki, awhcahnak avan cun khyeki ni.

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

Acuna kyase, akdaw pawh vai ksing lü am mi pawh cän mi pawh vai u, mimi cun mi mkhyeki hea kyaki ni.