¹Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?

¹Mapigano na magombano yote kati yenu yanatoka wapi? Hutoka katika tamaa zenu mbaya ambazo hupigana daima ndani yenu.

²Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

²Mnatamani vitu na kwa vile hamvipati mko tayari kuua; mwatamani sana kupata vitu, lakini hamvipati, hivyo mnagombana na kupigana. Hampati kile mnachotaka kwa sababu hamkiombi kwa Mungu.

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

³Tena, mnapoomba hampati kwa sababu mnaomba kwa nia mbaya; mnaomba ili mpate kutosheleza tamaa zenu.

⁴Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

⁴Ninyi ni watu msio na uaminifu kama wazinzi. Je, hamjui kwamba kuwa rafiki wa ulimwengu ni kuwa adui wa Mungu? Yeyote anayetaka kuwa rafiki wa ulimwengu anajifanya adui wa Mungu.

⁵Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

⁵Msifikiri kwamba Maandiko Matakatifu yamesema maneno ya bure, yanaposema: "Roho ambaye Mungu amemweka ndani yetu ana wivu mkubwa."

⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

⁶Lakini, neema tunayopewa na Mungu ina nguvu zaidi; kama yasemavyo Maandiko: "Mungu huwapinga wenye majivuno lakini huwapa neema wanyenyekevu."

⁷Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁷Basi, jiwekeni chini ya Mungu; mpingeni Ibilisi naye atawakimbieni.

⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

⁸Mkaribieni Mungu, naye atakuja karibu nanyi. Osheni mikono yenu enyi wakosefu! Safisheni mioyo yenu enyi wanafiki!

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

⁹Oneni huzuni, lieni na kuomboleza; kicheko chenu na kiwe kilio; na furaha yenu iwe huzuni kubwa.

¹⁰Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.

¹⁰Nyenyekeeni mbele ya Bwana, naye atawainueni.

¹¹Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.

¹¹Ndugu, msilaumiane ninyi kwa ninyi. Anayemlaumu ndugu yake na kumhukumu, huyo huilaumu na kuihukumu Sheria. Kama ukiihukumu Sheria, basi, wewe huitii Sheria, bali waihukumu.

¹²One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?

¹²Mungu peke yake ndiye mwenye kuweka Sheria na kuhukumu. Ni yeye peke yake anayeweza kuokoa na kuangamiza. Basi, wewe ni nani hata umhukumu binadamu mwenzako?

¹³Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

¹³Basi, sasa sikilizeni ninyi mnaosema: "Leo au kesho tutakwenda katika mji fulani na kukaa huko mwaka mzima tukifanya biashara na kupata faida."

¹⁴ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

¹⁴Ninyi hamjui hata maisha yenu yatakavyokuwa kesho! Ninyi ni kama ukungu unaotokea kwa muda mfupi tu na kutoweka tena.

¹⁵instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

¹⁵Mngalipaswa kusema: "Bwana akitujalia tutaishi na tutafanya hiki au kile."

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

¹⁶Lakini sasa mwajivuna na kujigamba; majivuno ya namna hiyo ni mabaya.

¹⁷To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

¹⁷Basi, mtu ambaye hafanyi lile jambo jema analojua kwamba anapaswa kulifanya, anatenda dhambi.