James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Dzinobvepi hondo nekurwa pakati penyu? Hazvibvi apa here, pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa pamitezo yenyu?
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.
Munoshuva, asi hamuna chinhu; munouraya uye munoshumba, asi hamugoni kuwana chinhu; munorwa muchiita hondo, asi hamuna chinhu, nokuti hamukumbiri.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Munokumbira, asi hamugamuchiri, nokuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti muparadze pakuchiva kwenyu.
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.
Imwi mhombwe nemhombwekadzi, hamuzivi here kuti ushamwari hwenyika ruvengo kuna Mwari? Naizvozvo umwe neumwe anoda kuva shamwari yenyika, anova muvengi waMwari.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Kana munofunga kuti rugwaro rwunotaura pasina maturo here kuti: Mweya wakagara mukati medu anochivira godo?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Asi anopa nyasha huru; saka anoti: Mwari anopikisa vanozvikudza, asi anopa nyasha vanozvininipisa.
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Naizvozvo muzviise pasi kuna Mwari; pikisai dhiabhorosi, zvino achakutizai.
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, naiye achaswedera kwamuri; shambai maoko, vatadzi, uye muchenure moyo, imwi vemoyo miviri.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Tambudzikai uye chemai uye rirai; kuseka kwenyu ngakushandurwe kuve kuchema, nemufaro uve kusuruvara.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, uye achakusimudzai.
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.
Musareverana zvakaipa, hama. Anorevera hama zvakaipa uye kutonga hama yake, anorevera murairo zvakaipa, nekutonga murairo; zvino kana uchitonga murairo, hausi muiti wemurairo, asi mutongi.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Umwe chete ndiye mutemi wemurairo, anogona kuponesa nekuparadza; iwe ndiwe ani anotonga umwe?
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.”
Uyai ikozvino imwi munoti: Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta rekuti, tigogarako gore rimwe, tigotengeserana, tigowana mubairo;
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.
imwi musingazivi zvamangwana. Nokuti upenyu hwenyu chii? Nokuti imhute inoonekwa nguva diki, ipapo ndokunyangarika.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Pakuti muti: Kana Ishe achida, tichararamawo, tigoita ichi kana icho.
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Asi ikozvino munozvirumbidza pakuzvikudza kwenyu; kuzvirumbidza kwese kwakadai kwakaipa.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Naizvozvo anoziva kuita zvakanaka asingazviiti, chivi kwaari.
