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

¹Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

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.

²ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

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

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

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.

⁴Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

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

⁵Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,`

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."

⁶and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?`

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

⁷be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

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.

⁸draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

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.

⁹be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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

¹⁰be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

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.

¹¹Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

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?

¹²one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?

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

¹³Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;`

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.

¹⁴who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

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

¹⁵instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;`

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

¹⁶and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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

¹⁷to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.