James 4

1 Tuku ya me anwuk ac akukuin inmasrlowos inge? Ma inge tuku liki kena lowos nu ke mwe pwar koluk, su amei na in kowos.

Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

2 Kowos mwel ma lun mwet ac koflana eis, oru kowos akola in akmas; yokla nunkunma suwos, ac ke kowos tia ku in eis na kowos akukuin ac anwuk. Kowos tia eis ma kowos lungse mweyen kowos tia siyuk sin God kac.

You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 Ac pacl kowos siyuk uh kowos tiana eis, mweyen sripa lowos uh koluk. Kowos siyuk ke ma kowos in orekmakin nu ke pwar lowos sifacna.

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

4 Tiana pwaye insiowos nu sin God! Ya kowos tia etu lah kowos fin mwet kawuk lun faclu, kalmac pa kowos mwet lokoalok lun God? Kutena mwet su lungse ma lun faclu el sifacna oru elan mwet lokoalok lun God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5 Nik kowos nunku mu sutuu uh Ma Simusla ma fahk mu, “God El lemtai ngun se su El filiya in kut.”

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?

6 Tusruktu lungkulang se su God El ase, el ku liki na. Oana Ma Simusla uh fahk, “God El lainulos su inse fulat, a El sang lungkulang nu selos su pusisel.”

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

7 Ke ma inge, eiskowosyang sifacna nu sin God. Kowos in lain Devil, ac el fah kaingkin kowos.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Kowos in kalukyang nu yurin God, ac El ac fah apkuranwot nu yuruwos. Ohlla pouwos, kowos mwet koluk! Aknasnasye insiowos, kowos mwet wosounkas!

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

9 Kowos in arulana asor, ac tung ac mwemelil; ekulla israsr lowos an nu ke tung, ac engan lowos nu ke inse toasr!

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

10 Akpusiselye kowos sifacna ye mutun Leum, ac El fah akfulatye kowos.

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

11 Mwet wiuk in lulalfongi, kowos in tia kaskas in sufan sie sin sie. Kutena mwet su sufan mwet lulalfongi wial ku nununkal, el lain Ma Sap ac orek nununku nu kac. Kom fin nununku Ma Sap, na kom tila sie su akos Ma Sap, a kom mwet nununku se.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or 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.

12 God mukena pa orala Ma Sap ac orek nununku. El mukena ku in molela ac kunausla. Su kom an ku in nununku mwet wiom?

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

13 Ac inge porongeyu, kowos su fahk mu, “Misenge ku lutu kut ac som nu ke sie siti ac muta we yac se, sramtauk sie business lasr ac konauk mani na yohk.”

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

14 A kowos tia ku in etu lah moul lowos ac fuka lutu! Kowos oana sie kulasr, su sikyak ke kitin pacl na wanginla.

Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

15 Ma fal kowos in fahk pa inge: “Fin oh lungse lun God, kut fah moul ac oru ma se inge, ku ma se ingo.”

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

16 A inge kowos inse fulat ac tungak. Koluk kain konkin inge kewa.

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

17 Ke ma inge, nu sel su etu in oru wo a el tia oru, ac ma koluk se lal.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.