¹Mapigano na magombano yote kati yenu yanatoka wapi? Hutoka katika tamaa zenu mbaya ambazo hupigana daima ndani yenu.

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

²Mnatamani vitu na kwa vile hamvipati mko tayari kuua; mwatamani sana kupata vitu, lakini hamvipati, hivyo mnagombana na kupigana. Hampati kile mnachotaka kwa sababu hamkiombi kwa Mungu.

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

³Tena, mnapoomba hampati kwa sababu mnaomba kwa nia mbaya; mnaomba ili mpate kutosheleza tamaa zenu.

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

⁴Ninyi ni watu msio na uaminifu kama wazinzi. Je, hamjui kwamba kuwa rafiki wa ulimwengu ni kuwa adui wa Mungu? Yeyote anayetaka kuwa rafiki wa ulimwengu anajifanya adui wa Mungu.

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.

⁵Msifikiri kwamba Maandiko Matakatifu yamesema maneno ya bure, yanaposema: "Roho ambaye Mungu amemweka ndani yetu ana wivu mkubwa."

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

⁶Lakini, neema tunayopewa na Mungu ina nguvu zaidi; kama yasemavyo Maandiko: "Mungu huwapinga wenye majivuno lakini huwapa neema wanyenyekevu."

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

⁷Basi, jiwekeni chini ya Mungu; mpingeni Ibilisi naye atawakimbieni.

⁷Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸Mkaribieni Mungu, naye atakuja karibu nanyi. Osheni mikono yenu enyi wakosefu! Safisheni mioyo yenu enyi wanafiki!

⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

⁹Oneni huzuni, lieni na kuomboleza; kicheko chenu na kiwe kilio; na furaha yenu iwe huzuni kubwa.

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

¹⁰Nyenyekeeni mbele ya Bwana, naye atawainueni.

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

¹¹Ndugu, msilaumiane ninyi kwa ninyi. Anayemlaumu ndugu yake na kumhukumu, huyo huilaumu na kuihukumu Sheria. Kama ukiihukumu Sheria, basi, wewe huitii Sheria, bali waihukumu.

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.

¹²Mungu peke yake ndiye mwenye kuweka Sheria na kuhukumu. Ni yeye peke yake anayeweza kuokoa na kuangamiza. Basi, wewe ni nani hata umhukumu binadamu mwenzako?

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?

¹³Basi, sasa sikilizeni ninyi mnaosema: "Leo au kesho tutakwenda katika mji fulani na kukaa huko mwaka mzima tukifanya biashara na kupata faida."

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:

¹⁴Ninyi hamjui hata maisha yenu yatakavyokuwa kesho! Ninyi ni kama ukungu unaotokea kwa muda mfupi tu na kutoweka tena.

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.

¹⁵Mngalipaswa kusema: "Bwana akitujalia tutaishi na tutafanya hiki au kile."

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

¹⁶Lakini sasa mwajivuna na kujigamba; majivuno ya namna hiyo ni mabaya.

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

¹⁷Basi, mtu ambaye hafanyi lile jambo jema analojua kwamba anapaswa kulifanya, anatenda dhambi.

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