¹Dzinobvepi hondo nekurwa pakati penyu? Hazvibvi pakuchiva kwenyu kunorwa pamitezo yenyu here?

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

²Munoshuva, asi hamuna chinhu; munouraya muchishumba, asi hamungawani chinhu, munorwa muchiita hondo; zvakadaro hamuna chinhu nekuti hamukumbiri.

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;

³Munokumbira asi hamugamuchiri, nekuti munokumbira zvakaipa, kuti muzviparadze pakuchiva kwenyu.

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

⁴Imwi mhombwe nezvifeve, hamuzivi here kuti ushamwari hwenyika hwunovengana naMwari? Naizvozvo umwe neumwe unoda kuva shamwari yenyika, unoitwa muvengi waMwari.

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.

⁵Munofunga kuti rugwaro runotaura pasina maturo here ruchiti: Mweya, wakagara mukati medu unochiva negodo?

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

⁶Asi unopa nyasha huru; saka unoti: Mwari unopikisa vanozvikudza, asi unopa nyasha vanozvininipisa.

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?`

⁷Naizvozvo muzviise pasi paMwari, pikisai dhiabhorosi agokutizai.

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

⁸Swederai kuna Mwari, iye agoswedera kwamuri; shambai maoko, vatadzi, mugonatsa moyo, imwi mune moyo miviri.

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

⁹Suwai, mucheme, murire; kuseka kwenyu ngakushandurwe kuve kuchema, nemufaro uve kufundumwara.

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

¹⁰Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokukwiridzirai.

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

¹¹Musareverana zvakaipa, hama. Unorevera hama yake zvakaipa uye kutonga hama yake unorevera murairo zvakaipa nekutonga murairo; zvino kana uchitonga murairo, hausi muiti wemurairo, asi mutongi.

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;

¹²Mumwe chete ndiye mutemi wemurairo, iye unogona kuponesa nekuparadza; iwe ndiwe ani unotonga umwe?

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

¹³Chinzwai imwi munoti: Nhasi kana mangwana tichaenda kuguta rekuti, tigogarako gore, tichitengeserana, tiwane mubairo;

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;`

¹⁴imwi musingazivi zvamangwana. Nekuti upenyu hwenyu chii? Nekuti hwunongova mhute, inoonekwa nguva duku, ndokunyangarika;

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;

¹⁵pakudai muchiti: Kana Ishe achida, tichararama tigoita zvekuti nezvekuti.

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

¹⁶Asi zvino munozvirumbidza pakuzvikudza kwenyu; kuzvirumbidza kose kwakadai kwakaipa.

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

¹⁷Naizvozvo uyo unoziva kuita zvakanaka akasazviita chivi kwaari.

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