James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Ngondu na makomangu pakati pa mwenga vilawa koshi? Vilawa mumatamata zyenu zidoda zyazilikomanga kila mala munshimba mwenu.
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.
Mfira vintu kumbiti muvipata ndiri, su mwa kala kulaga, mfira nentu kupata vintu kumbiti muvipata ndiri. Su mwankulitenderana ngondu na kulikomanga. Mpata ndiri shilii shamfira toziya mushiluwa ndiri kwa Mlungu.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Na pamluwa mpata ndiri toziya mluwa kwa nfiru idoda, mluwa su mpati kufiriziya matamata zyenu.
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.
Mwenga wantu yamuwera ndiri waminika, hashi, muvimana ndiri kuwera ganja gwa pasipanu ndo kuwera mngondu gwa Mlungu? Yoseri yakafira kuwera ganja gwa vitwatira vya pasipanu kalitenda kuwera mngondu gwa Mlungu.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Ama namulihola kuwera Malembu Mananagala gahera unakaka pagalonga, “Rohu ulii Mlungu yakamtula mngati mwetu kawera na weya ng'anji.”
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Kumbiti manemu gatupananwa na Mlungu gawera na makakala nentu, ntambu yagalonga Malembu Mananagala, “Mlungu kawasinga wantu yawawera na malingisi kumbiti kawalanguziya manemu wantu yawawera wananaga.”
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Su mumjimiri Mlungu, mumsingi Shetani, nayomberi hakawatiri.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Mumsegeleri Mlungu, nayomberi hakawasegeleri mwenga. Mguluri mawoku genu mwenga yamutenda vidoda! Muyipungi myoyu yenu mwenga wafyangu!
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Muweri na hinginiku, mlili na kudaya. Kuseka kwa mwenga kuweri kulila, na nemeleru ya mwenga iweri hinginiku.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Mulinanagaziyi kulongolu kwa Mtuwa, nayomberi hakawanyasuli.
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.
Walongu, namulitakulirana madoda maweni kwa mwenga. Yakamtakulira madoda mlongu gwakuwi ama kumtoza, muntu ayu kalitakulira madoda na kulitoza Lilagaliru lya Mlungu. Pagulitoza Lilagaliru lya Mlungu, su gwenga gulijimira ndiri Lilagaliru lya Mlungu kumbiti gulitoza.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Mlungu gweka yakuwi ndo yakatula Lilagaliru na kutoza. Ndo gweka yakuwi hera yakaweza kulopoziya na kwagamiziya. Su gwenga gwa gaa ata gumtozi muyagu?
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.”
Su vinu mpikaniri mwenga yamlonga, “Leru ama shirawu hatugendi mulushi tunga na kulikala aku kwa shipindi sha shinja shoseri, hatuwuzi vintu na kupata mota.”
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.
Mwenga muvimana ndiri ata makaliru genu ntambu hagaweri shirawu! Mwenga mulifana na lifukafuka lyalilawira kwa shipindi shididini hera na kuwuka kayi.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Ira memfiriziwi kulonga, “Mtuwa pakafira hatulikali na kutenda ashi ama shilii.”
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Kumbiti vinu mwankulidumba na kulitumba, matumbiru ga ntambu yoseri ayi ndo madoda.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Su muntu yakamana kutenda maheri na pakaleka kutenda, kankutenda vidoda.
