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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

⁷Naizvozvo muzviise pasi paMwari, pikisai dhiabhorosi agokutizai.

⁷Be subject therefore unto God; but resist 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 your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

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

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

¹⁰Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokukwiridzirai.

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of 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 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.

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

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?

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

¹⁷Naizvozvo uyo unoziva kuita zvakanaka akasazviita chivi kwaari.

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