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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

⁷Naizvozvo muzviise pasi paMwari, pikisai dhiabhorosi agokutizai.

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁰Zvininipisei pamberi paIshe, agokukwiridzirai.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁷Naizvozvo uyo unoziva kuita zvakanaka akasazviita chivi kwaari.