Jakobho 1

¹Jakobho, muranda waMwari nowaShe Jesu Kristu, kumarudzi anegumi namaviri akapararira: Farai!James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

²Hama dzangu,zvitorei so mufaro bedzi kana muchiwira mumiidzo mizhinji;My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

³muchiziva kuti kuidzwa kwokutenda kwenyu kunobereka kutsungirira.Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

⁴Asi kutsungirira ngakuve nebasa rakakwaniswa, kuti mukwane, mururame kwazvo, musingashaiwi chinhu.But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

⁵Zvino kana mumwe wenyu achishaiwa kuchenjera ngaakumbire kunaMwari, unongopa vose asingazotuki; uchapiwa hake.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

⁶Asi ngaakumbire nokutenda, asinganyunyuti napaduku; nokuti munhu unonyunyuta wakaita sefungu regungwa rinosundwa nemhepo richimutswa-mutswa.But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

⁷Munhu uyu arege kufunga kuti uchazowana chinhu kunaShe;For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

⁸munhu, unemoyo miviri, unoshanduka-shanduka panzira dzake dzose.A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

⁹Asi hama iri muduku ngaafare nokukudzwa kwake;Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

¹⁰nomufumi nokuninipiswa kwake, nokuti uchapfuvura seruva rovuswa.But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

¹¹Nokuti zuva rinobuda pamwe chete nemhepo inopisa, ndokuwomesa vuswa; ruva rabwo rinowira pasi, nokunaka kwabwo kwakanga kwavonekwa kunopera; saizvozvo vo mufumi uchasvava panzira dzake.For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

¹²Wakaropafadzwa munhu uyo unotsungirira pakuidzwa; nokuti kana atendwa, uchapiwa korona yovupenyu yakapikirwa avo vanomuda.Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

¹³Kana munhu achiidzwa, ngaarege kuti ndinoidzwa naMwari; nokuti Mwari haangaidzwi nezvakaipa, naiye amene haangaidzi munhu.Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

¹⁴Asi munhu mumwe nomumwe unoidzwa kana achikwebwa nokuchiva kwake achinyengerwa.But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵Zvino kuchiva, kana kwarema, kunozvara zvivi; nezvivi, kana zvakura, zvinobereka rufu.Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

¹⁶Musanyengerwa, hama dzangu dzinodikanwa.Do not err, my beloved brethren.

¹⁷Zvipo zvose zvakanaka nezvipiwa zvose zvakakwana zvinobva kumusoro, zvichiburuka kunaBaba vezviedza, uyo usina kupinduka kana mumvuri wokushanduka.Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

¹⁸Nokuda kwake wakatibereka neshoko rezvokwadi, kuti isu tiite sechibereko chokutanga chezvisikwa zvake.Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

¹⁹Munoziva henyu izvozvo hama dzangu dzinodikanwa. Asi munhu mumwe nomumwe ngaakurumidze kunzwa, anonoke kutaura, anonoke kutsamwa;Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

²⁰nokuti kutsamwa kwomunhu hakuiti kururama kwaMwari.For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

²¹Saka bvisai tsvina yose nokuipa kwakawanda, mugamuchire nomoyo munyoro shoko rakasimwa mukati menyu, rinogona kuponesa mweya yenyu.Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²²Asi ivai vaiti veshoko, musava vanzwi voga, muchizvinyengera.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

²³Nokuti kana ari munzwi weshoko, asati ari muiti waro, wakafanana nomunhu unovona chiso chake, chaakaberekwa nacho, muchivonivoni.For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

²⁴Nokuti unozvivona, ndokuenda, ndokukanganwa pakarepo kuti wakadini iye.For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

²⁵Asi munhu unocherekedza murairo wakakwana, iwo murairo wokusunungurwa, akaramba achidaro, asati ari munzwi, unokanganwa, asi muiti webasa, iye ucharopafadzwa panezvaanoita.But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

²⁶Kana munhu pakati penyu achiti ndinonamata Mwari, asingadzori rurimi rwake, asi achinyengera moyo wake, kutenda kwaiyeyo munhu hakunamaturo.If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

²⁷Kunamata, kwakarurama, kusine mhosva pamberi paMwari wedu naBaba, ndiko kufambira nherera nechirikadzi pakutambudzika kwavo, nokuzvichengeta, kuti arege kusvibiswa nenyika.Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.