¹Jakobho, muranda waMwari newaIshe Jesu Kristu, kumarudzi gumi nemaviri akapararira: Kwaziwai!

¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

²Hama dzangu, zvitorei zvose semufaro kana muchiwira mumiidzo yakasiyana siyana;

²Count it all joy, my brothers The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” , when you fall into various temptations,

³muchiziva kuti kuidzwa kwerutendo rwenyu kunobereka kutsungirira.

³knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

⁴Asi kutsungirira ngakuve nebasa rakapedzeredzwa, kuti muve vakaperedzera nekukwana musingashaiwi chinhu.

⁴Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁵Uye kana umwe wenyu achishaiwa uchenjeri ngaakumbire kuna Mwari, unopavhurira vose asingagunun'uni; uchapiwa hake.

⁵But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

⁶Asi ngaakumbire murutendo, asingakahadziki chinhu; nekuti munhu unokahadzika wakaita sefungu regungwa rinosundwa nemhepo richidzungaidzwa.

⁶But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

⁷Nekuti munhu uyu ngaarege kufunga kuti uchazogamuchira chinhu kubva kuna Ishe;

⁷For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

⁸munhu une moyo miviri, usina kwake panzira dzake dzose.

⁸He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹Asi hama yakaderera ngaifare pakukudzwa kwake;

⁹But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

¹⁰nemufumi pakuderedzwa kwake, nekuti seruva reuswa uchapfuura.

¹⁰and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

¹¹Nekuti zuva rinobuda pamwe nekupisa kunopfutidza ndokuwomesa uswa; ruva rahwo rinowira pasi, nokunaka kwechimiro chahwo kwakaparara; saizvozvowo mufumi uchabvuruvara panzira dzake.

¹¹For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

¹²Wakaropafadzwa munhu unotsungirira pamuidzo; nekuti kana anzverwa, uchagamuchira korona yeupenyu Ishe yaakavimbisa avo vanomuda.

¹²Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

¹³Kusava nemunhu unoti achiidzwa ati: Ndinoidzwa naMwari; nekuti Mwari haangaidzi nezvakaipa, naiye amene haangaidzi munhu.

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

¹⁴Asi munhu umwe neumwe unoidzwa kana achikwehwa nekukwezwa nekuchiva kwake.

¹⁴But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵Zvino kuchiva kana kwakurirwa kunozvara chivi; nechivi kana chaperedzerwa, chinobereka rufu.

¹⁵Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

¹⁶Musanyengerwa, hama dzangu dzinodikamwa.

¹⁶Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

¹⁷chipo chose chakanaka nechipo chose chakaperedzerwa chinobva kumusoro, chichiburuka kubva kuna Baba vezviedza, uyo usina kupinduka kana mumvuri wekushanduka.

¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

¹⁸Nekuda kwekuda kwake wakatibereka neshoko rechokwadi, kuti isu tiite sechibereko chekutanga chezvisikwa zvake.

¹⁸Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁹Naizvozvo, hama dzangu dzinodiwa, munhu umwe neumwe ngaave unokurumidza kunzwa, unononoka kutaura, unononoka kutsamwa;

¹⁹So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

²⁰Nekuti kutsamwa kwemunhu hakuiti kururama kwaMwari.

²⁰for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

²¹Saka bvisai zvinyangadzo zvose nekuwanda kweunhubu, mugamuchire nemoyo munyoro shoko rakabatanidzwa pamuri, rinogona kuponesa mweya yenyu.

²¹Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls or, preserve your life. .

²²Asi ivai vaiti veshoko, uye kwete vanzwi voga, muchizvinyengera.

²²But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

²³Nekuti kana ani nani ari munzwi weshoko, asiri muiti waro wakafanana nomunhu unoona chiso chake chechisikigo muchionioni.

²³For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

²⁴Nekuti unozviona, ndokuenda, ndokukangamwa pakarepo kuti wanga akadini.

²⁴for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

²⁵Asi uyo unocherekedza murairo wakaperedzerwa wekusunungurwa, akaramba achidaro asati ari munzwi unokangamwa, asi muiti webasa, munhu uyu ucharopafadzwa pakuita kwake.

²⁵But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

²⁶Kana munhu pakati penyu achiti unotenda, asingadzori rurimi rwake, asi achinyengera moyo wake, rutendo rwemunhu uyu harwuna maturo.

²⁶If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

²⁷Rutendo rwakarurama, rwusina kusvibiswa pamberi paMwari naBaba ndirworwu, kufambira nherera nechirikadzi pakutambudzika kwavo, kuti azvichengete asina gwapa kubva kunyika.

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.