¹Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

¹Katar avel le marimata ai le chingara mashkar tumende? Katar tumare ginduria le chorhe aven, kai marenpe sagda ande tumaro stato.

²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

²Tume mangen vari so, numa nashtin te len kodia diela. Tume mudaren, ai manglianas te avel tume vari so, numa nashtin te avel tume kodia diela. Antunchi tume maren ai keren nasulimata. Nai tume so mangen ke chi mangen katar O Del.

³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

³Ai kana mangen, chi len, ke tumare ginduria nai lashe, ke so mangen, mangen te avel tume kodia diela tumare mishtimaske.

⁴Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

⁴Xoxamle kai san! Tume kai keren zhungalimos, pate chi zhanen ke tu san o vortako la lumiako antunchi san o duzhmano le Devlesko? Kodo kai mangel te avel o vortako la lumiako kerdiol o duzhmano le Devlesko.

⁵Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

⁵Na gindin ke intaino mothol E Vorba le Devleski, "Ke le Devleske drago O Swunto Duxo kai thodia ande amende."

⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

⁶Numa O Del del ame iek mai baro lashimos, ke E Vorba le Devleski mothol, "Ke le Devleske nai drago le manush kai si barimatange, numa drago leske le manush kai nai barimatange."

⁷Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁷No keren so mangel tumendar O Del. Ai na keren so mangel o beng, ai duriola dur tumendar.

⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

⁸Pashon pasha Del, ai O Del pashola pasha tumende. Vuzharen tumare vas tume kai san bezexale, ai vuzharen tumare ile, tume kai chi zhanen so mangen.

⁹Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

⁹Trobul te aven ando nekazo, te roven, ai te suspinin; ai trobul te na asan numa te roven, ai te na aven raduime numa nekezhime.

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

¹⁰Meken tume tele angla Kristo, ai wo vazdela tume opre.

¹¹Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹¹Murhe phral, na phenen nasulimos pa iek kavreste. Ke kodo kai mothol nasulimos pa pesko phral vai kai dosharel les, kodo mothol nasulimos pa zakono ai dosharel le zakonos: numa te dosharesa le zakonos, chi mai san kodo kai kerel so mothol o zakono, numa kodo kai dosharel le zakonos.

¹²One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

¹²Ke ferdi O Del si, kai del o zakono ai kai dosharel, wo ferdi sai vi skepil ai vi sai xasarel, kon san tu, tu kai doshares che phrales?

¹³Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

¹³Ashunen mande akana! Tume kai mothon, "Adies vai terhara zhasa ande kutari foro, ai beshasa kotse iek bersh. ai kerasa buchi te nirisaras love."

¹⁴whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

¹⁴Tume chi zhanen so avela terhara. So si cho traio? Tume san chaches sar iek tsinorhi magla, kai sikadiol xantsi vriama ai porme ma nai.

¹⁵For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

¹⁵Ke trobul te mothon, "Te mangela O Del, traiisarasa, ai kerasa kadia, vai kerasa kodia.

¹⁶But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

¹⁶Numa akana tume raduin tume ande tumare barimata; ai kasavestar raduimos si bezex,

¹⁷To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

¹⁷ai kado kai zhanel te kerel o lashimos, ai chi kerel les, bezex kerel.