¹Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

¹Nalak ua ki douna leh kinaknate koia kipan a hong suak ahi ua? Na pumpi hiangte ua kidouna bawlnak, na duhgawlna ua kipante a pawt ahi kei ua hia?

²You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

²Na lunggulh ua, na nei tuankei ua; huchi in tual nathat uh. Na eng ua, na ngah thei tuankei ua na kidou ua, gal na bawl uh. Na ngetlouh ziakun na neikei uh.

³You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

³Na ngen ua, na nget diklouh ziak un na mu kei uh, na nawpsak bawlna ding ua zat na tup ziakun.

⁴You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

⁴Nou angkawm hatte aw, khovel lawm hihna Pathian melma hihna ahi chih nathei keiua hia? Huchi in kuapeuhmah khovel lawm hih ut tuh Pathian melma in a kibawl nak hi.

⁵Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

⁵Ahihkeileh, Kha eimah a teng in haza phial in a hondeih hi, chih Laisiangthou in bangmahlou in gen in na gingta ua hia?

⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Proverbs 3:34

⁶Himahleh hehpihna tamsem a pe nak; huaziakin Laisiangthou in, Pathian in mi kisatheite a dou a, ki ngaineute bel hehpihna a pe nak, a chi ahi.

⁷Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁷Huchiin, Pathian thuthu in awm un; ahihhangin diabol dou un, huchiin a hon taimang san ding hi.

⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

⁸Pathian naih unla, huchiin aman a hon naih ding. Khialte aw, na khut uh silsiang un: lungsim bulbal neiloute aw, na lungtang uh hih siangthou un.

⁹Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

⁹Haksa sa unla, lungkham unla, kap un; nanuih uh lungkham suak henla, na kipah uh nguina suak hen.

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

¹⁰Toupa mitmuh in kingaineu un, huchi in a hon hihlian ding hi.

¹¹Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹¹Unaute aw, ki gensia tuah kei un. Kuapeuh in a unau a gensiat in hiam aw, a unau a vaihawm khum in hiam, dan a gensia in dan a vaihawm khum ahi; himahleh dan na gensiat leh dan zuimi na hi kei a, vaihawmpa na hizaw hi.

¹²Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

¹²Dan pepa leh vaihawmpa khatlel om, hondam theipa leh hihmang thei pa Nang na vengte vaihawm khumpa kua na hia?

¹³Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

¹³Tunah ngai un, nou, tuni hiam zingchiang hiam in, huai khawpi ah ihawh ding ua, huailai ah kumkhat iva tam ding ua, I sumsin ding ua, punna imu ding, chite aw.

¹⁴Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

¹⁴Jingchiangin bang hongawm ding ahia chih nathei ngalkei ua. Na hinna uh bang ahia? Mei sawtlou kal a hongdawk a, mangnawn lel jel bangphet na hi ngal ua,

¹⁵For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

¹⁵Huchiin, Toupan pha asak leh idam dia, hiai hiam, huai hiam ihih ding, nachih ding uh ahi.

¹⁶But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁶Himahleh na kiotsaknate uh na suang zaw ngal ua, huchibang suanna tengteng tuh gilou ahi.Huchiin kuapeuh thilhoih ding thei a hihtuanlou tuh amaha dingin khelhna ahi.

¹⁷To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

¹⁷Huchiin kuapeuh thilhoih ding thei a hihtuanlou tuh amaha dingin khelhna ahi.