James 4 | New Testament

James 4English

Jakubo 4African Kalanga

English1
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
African Kalanga
Ini tjinobanga ngwa ne kukwebakwebana pakati kwenyu? Azwitobva mu njemulo dzenyu dzinogwisana mukati kwenyu kene?
English2
You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
African Kalanga
Moyemula koga mukasizwiwane, ndizo mukabulaya. Muna tjiba mu zwinhu zwinjinji, ngono tjiba dzenyu adzitopunduka, ndizo mukwebakwebana mudza mugwa. Amutowana zwinhu zwamunohaka ne kuti amutozwikumbila.
English3
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
African Kalanga
Ngono ha mukumbila amutowana ne kuti amutokumbila ne zila yakalulwama. Mokumbilila hanhisa njemulo dzenyu.
English4
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
African Kalanga
Banhu basingagagwebgwe ndimwi! Apa amutoziba kuti ha muli bazwalani be hango mu zwita zwe Ndzimu kene?
English5
Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
African Kalanga
Kene mozwibva muti ndebo iyeyi imu whalo dze Ndzimu, inoti “Ndzimu una njemulo dzinopisika nekwe meya yawakalonga mutili,” ate malebeswa?
English6
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
African Kalanga
Koga ngoni dzatinowhigwa ne Ndzimu inji, ndizo whalo dze Ndzimu dziti, “Ndzimu unonyanyayidza banhu banozwikudza, koga unowhila ngoni banozwiyisa pasi.”
English7
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
African Kalanga
Muzwipe mu Ndzimu mugwisane ne Nvanganyi, ndizo Nvanganyi unowomutihha.
English8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
African Kalanga
Muzwisedzedze ku Ndzimu ndizo na iwobo unowozwisedzedza kumuli. Ngulani maboko enyu, batjinyi ndimwi! Mutjenese mimoyo yenyu, banhu ndimwi be mimiyo ikabili!
English9
Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
African Kalanga
Ibeni ne buyendasi muwhe zogwadza mulile ne tjiseko tjenyu tjihanduke tjibe tjililo. Hatha kwenyu ngakuhanduke kube fubala ne wha zogwadza.
English10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
African Kalanga
Muzwiyise pasi mbeli kwa He ndizo unowomukudza.
English11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
African Kalanga
Musilebane bubi makamu. Iye unoleba bubi nekwe limwe gamu, kene elibona nlandu, unobe eleba bubi nekwe nlayo, koga ha ubona nlayo nlandu auteuli nlondolodzi we nlayo koga unsumikilisi wawo.
English12
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you–who are you to judge your neighbor?
African Kalanga
Kuna nng'ompela unopa nlayo kakale unosumikilisa, iye unotubula tjidza ne kolomola. Koga iwe, uani unobona mmwe nhu nlandu kene?
English13
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
African Kalanga
Whililani imwi munoti, “Nasi kene mangwana towoyenda kwakati, tikanolaluka tihaba tikubunganya mari manjinji,”
English14
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
African Kalanga
koga musingazibe kuti kowobe kuli njani mangwana. Butjilo gwenyu ini kene? Monga fulele inobe yapo ikabva ipela tjinyolotjo.
English15
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
African Kalanga
Makafanila kuti muti, “Ha He eda, towotjila tikahinga sa whoku na whoku.”
English16
As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
African Kalanga
Ngono ngwenu mozwikudza muzwiloba fuba. Koga kuzwiloba fuba ikoko kubiibi.
English17
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.
African Kalanga
Iye unoziba tjakalulwama tjaakafanila thama koga kasitjithame, unothama jinyo.

Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.