¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

¹Jakobho, muranda waMwari newaIshe Jesu Kristu, kumarudzi gumi nemaviri akapararira: Kwaziwai!

²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

²Hama dzangu, zvitorei zvose semufaro kana muchiwira mumiidzo yakasiyana siyana;

³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

³muchiziva kuti kuidzwa kwerutendo rwenyu kunobereka kutsungirira.

⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

⁴Asi kutsungirira ngakuve nebasa rakapedzeredzwa, kuti muve vakaperedzera nekukwana musingashaiwi chinhu.

⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

⁵Uye kana umwe wenyu achishaiwa uchenjeri ngaakumbire kuna Mwari, unopavhurira vose asingagunun'uni; uchapiwa hake.

⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

⁶Asi ngaakumbire murutendo, asingakahadziki chinhu; nekuti munhu unokahadzika wakaita sefungu regungwa rinosundwa nemhepo richidzungaidzwa.

⁷For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

⁷Nekuti munhu uyu ngaarege kufunga kuti uchazogamuchira chinhu kubva kuna Ishe;

⁸A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

⁸munhu une moyo miviri, usina kwake panzira dzake dzose.

⁹Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

⁹Asi hama yakaderera ngaifare pakukudzwa kwake;

¹⁰But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

¹⁰nemufumi pakuderedzwa kwake, nekuti seruva reuswa uchapfuura.

¹¹For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

¹¹Nekuti zuva rinobuda pamwe nekupisa kunopfutidza ndokuwomesa uswa; ruva rahwo rinowira pasi, nokunaka kwechimiro chahwo kwakaparara; saizvozvowo mufumi uchabvuruvara panzira dzake.

¹²Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

¹²Wakaropafadzwa munhu unotsungirira pamuidzo; nekuti kana anzverwa, uchagamuchira korona yeupenyu Ishe yaakavimbisa avo vanomuda.

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

¹³Kusava nemunhu unoti achiidzwa ati: Ndinoidzwa naMwari; nekuti Mwari haangaidzi nezvakaipa, naiye amene haangaidzi munhu.

¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁴Asi munhu umwe neumwe unoidzwa kana achikwehwa nekukwezwa nekuchiva kwake.

¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

¹⁵Zvino kuchiva kana kwakurirwa kunozvara chivi; nechivi kana chaperedzerwa, chinobereka rufu.

¹⁶Do not err, my beloved brethren.

¹⁶Musanyengerwa, hama dzangu dzinodikamwa.

¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

¹⁷chipo chose chakanaka nechipo chose chakaperedzerwa chinobva kumusoro, chichiburuka kubva kuna Baba vezviedza, uyo usina kupinduka kana mumvuri wekushanduka.

¹⁸Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

¹⁸Nekuda kwekuda kwake wakatibereka neshoko rechokwadi, kuti isu tiite sechibereko chekutanga chezvisikwa zvake.

¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

¹⁹Naizvozvo, hama dzangu dzinodiwa, munhu umwe neumwe ngaave unokurumidza kunzwa, unononoka kutaura, unononoka kutsamwa;

²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

²⁰Nekuti kutsamwa kwemunhu hakuiti kururama kwaMwari.

²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²¹Saka bvisai zvinyangadzo zvose nekuwanda kweunhubu, mugamuchire nemoyo munyoro shoko rakabatanidzwa pamuri, rinogona kuponesa mweya yenyu.

²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

²²Asi ivai vaiti veshoko, uye kwete vanzwi voga, muchizvinyengera.

²³For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

²³Nekuti kana ani nani ari munzwi weshoko, asiri muiti waro wakafanana nomunhu unoona chiso chake chechisikigo muchionioni.

²⁴For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

²⁴Nekuti unozviona, ndokuenda, ndokukangamwa pakarepo kuti wanga akadini.

²⁵But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

²⁵Asi uyo unocherekedza murairo wakaperedzerwa wekusunungurwa, akaramba achidaro asati ari munzwi unokangamwa, asi muiti webasa, munhu uyu ucharopafadzwa pakuita kwake.

²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

²⁶Kana munhu pakati penyu achiti unotenda, asingadzori rurimi rwake, asi achinyengera moyo wake, rutendo rwemunhu uyu harwuna maturo.

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

²⁷Rutendo rwakarurama, rwusina kusvibiswa pamberi paMwari naBaba ndirworwu, kufambira nherera nechirikadzi pakutambudzika kwavo, kuti azvichengete asina gwapa kubva kunyika.