1 PBL Ke me sulet ye penawekan ali pertengkaran ye jaji ke etang ko? Iro be asal ke kawan pengakan ko ye aur ngelawen te suang unuk ko dian ngeto kesenangan denia? BSB BSB: What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
2 PBL Ko kakan, et beloh mahan, belalu ko kakan munu. Ko behiri nare ate ali beloh mahan ye, ko bulo tanteng, rawek, ko sika sa mahan leka ko sa kaweng. BSB BSB: You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 PBL Ko kaweng, et sa mahan leka ko kaweng ali alasan ye sala ye iro dian nempuas na akan ko nge denia ihe. BSB BSB: And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
4 PBL Hei, ko ye kawan pezina, sa ke toan ko bila be uyang ali dunia, da pejaji unuk da musuh Allah? BSB BSB: You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
5 PBL Ya ko memikir kitab suci beloh naan sebab ngulek-ngulek, "Roh" ye suang Allah te suang unuk taka ye na akan Da ye ngewoyu? BSB BSB: Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
6 PBL Ye iro, Allah ngokoi anugerah ye na akoi tong ke lawi. Leko iro, Kitab Suci ngulek," Allah ngelawen ulun ye sakah, et se bali ye ngokoi kasih sayang anugerah tong ulun ye sa rendah ate. BSB BSB: But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 PBL Leka iro, okoi unuk kontong Allah. Lawen setan, maka da sagar mensit ke ko. BSB BSB: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 PBL Senrani tong Allah, ali Da sagar dani tong ko. Bui berasih kani ko, kawan ulun badosa, awat di jaranis ate ab, kawan ulun ye mendua ate. BSB BSB: Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 PBL Ware ko bene-bene menyasal pelor nangis lelang ngerodoi; dian oka ko beubah jaji tangis nelang ka ego ko jaji nare aseng. BSB BSB: Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10 PBL Sa sakah sombong ate ko te hadapan Tuhan. Maka Da sagar ngengkat ko jaji mo. BSB BSB: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 PBL Kawan erai butung kawus, ya mengke pesala ngulek hal ye daat ali kawan uyeng ko. Ulun ye ngulek ye daat leen erai butung da, ye ngadili erai butung da, ngulek ngelawan hukum ali ngadili hukum. Aka ko ngadili hukumko sa sih ko ulun ye ngene hukum ye iro melainkan jaji hakim ye. BSB BSB: Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
12 PBL Je naan erai ye tau ngakoi hukum ali hakim ye iro Da ye naan kuasa nyelamat nelang ngebinasa; jaji dase ye ko empe ko kakan pesala atawa ngehakimi sesama ko? BSB BSB: There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 PBL Nehe, dingga ye lah hei ko ye ngulek, "olo ho atawa tande kain sagar tulak tong jaa ihe ali iro, nondo te biduh suang erai taun, bedagang, ali mahan keuntungan," BSB BSB: Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” 14 PBL padahal ko sa ke toan se ye sagar jaji ali pemolum ko tande. Se arti pemolum ko? Pemolum ko iro nget uap ye ite ere erep, uli kero jaweh. BSB BSB: 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.
15 PBL Ko sebujur ye ngulek, "aka Tuhan nge ga kain sagar bolum ali ngene ihe atawa iro." BSB BSB: Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
16 PBL Et nehe ko beperagah suang ke sakah ko; beperagah nget iro ye daat. BSB BSB: As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
17 PBL Aka, se senu ulun ketoan nget me ngene ye buen, et da sa ngene ye, da bedosa. BSB BSB: Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
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