¹Musava vadzidzisi vazhinji, hama dzangu, muchiziva kuti tichagamuchira kutongwa kwakakura kupfuvurisa.

¹Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

²Nekuti tinokanganisa tose pazvinhu zvizhinji. Kana munhu asingakanganisi pashoko, ndiye munhu wakaperedzerwa, unogona kudzora muviri wosewo.

²for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one [is] a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

³Tarira, tinoisa matomu mumiromo yemabhiza kuti atiteerere, tichitenderedza muviri wawo wose.

³lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

⁴Tariraiwo zvikepe, izvo kunyange zviri zvikuru zvakadai zvichitinhwa nemhepo dzinotyisa, zvinodzorwa nechidzoreso chiduku duku kose-kose kune chishuwo chemufambisi.

⁴lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

⁵Kunyange rurimi mutezo muduku wakadaro, uye rwunozvirumbidza zvikuru. Tarirai moto muduku unotungidza huni zhinji sei!

⁵so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

⁶Nerurimi moto, nyika izere nekuipa; ndizvo zvakaita rurimi pakati pemitezo yedu, kuti runosvibisa muviri wose, nekutungidza nzira yose yeupenyu, uye rwunotungidzwa negehena.

⁶and the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

⁷Nekuti marudzi ose emhuka, neeshiri, neezvose zvinokambaira, neezvinhu zviri mugungwa angapingudzwa, uye anopingudzwa nechimiro chevanhu;

⁷For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

⁸asi hakuna munhu ungapingudza rurimi; rwakaipa, rwunoshanduka-shanduka, rwuzere nechepfu inouraya.

⁸and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

⁹Narwo tinorumbidza Mwari ivo Baba, narwo tinotuka vanhu, ivo vakaitwa nemufananidzo waMwari;

⁹with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

¹⁰mumuromo mumwewo munobva kurumbidza nekutuka. Hama dzangu, ngazviitike saizvozvo.

¹⁰out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

¹¹Chitubu chinobudisa pamuromo umwe mvura inonaka neinovava here?

¹¹doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

¹²Ko, hama dzangu, muvonde ungabereka maorivhi here, kana muzambiringa maonde? Saizvozvo chutubu hachibudisi mvura inovava neinonaka.

¹²is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water [is able] to make.

¹³Ndiani wakachenjera newakangwara pakati penyu? Ngaaratidze nemufambiro wakanaka mabasa ake neunyoro hweuchenjeri.

¹³Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

¹⁴Asi kana mune godo rinovava norukave mumoyo yenyu, musazvirumbidza nekurevera chokwadi nhema.

¹⁴and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

¹⁵Kuchenjera uku hakuburuki kuchibva kumusoro, asi ndokwenyika, kwechisikirwo, kweudhimoni.

¹⁵this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

¹⁶Nekuti pane godo nerukave, ndipo pane nyongano nebasa rose rakaipa.

¹⁶for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;

¹⁷Asi uchenjeri hwunobva kumusoro pakutanga hwakachena, kozouya kuva nerugare, kunyorova, kuteerera, kuzara netsitsi nezvibereko zvakanaka, hwusina kutsaura, hwusina kunyengera.

¹⁷and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: —

¹⁸Uye chibereko chekururama chinodzwarwa murugare kune vanoita rugare.

¹⁸and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.