1 PBP Pulaksanai-pulaksanaiku, ada naan wahai gihelangiko jari guru ket iko kotoe bahwa takam sa ngajar sagar nahakimi anri ukuran sa lewi wiet. BSB BSB: Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
2 PBP Takam kahai bahala huang wahai hal. Amunnaan ulun sa suah bahala huang papaneranne, io adalah ulun sa sempurna, sa pada mampu nyupir kahai tubuh. BSB BSB: We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
3 PBP Takam masang kekang gi mulut kuda agar reo menaati takam, dan takam pada nyupir kahai tubuh. BSB BSB: When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.
4 PBP Ite pada kapal-kapal meskipun reo bangat idu, dan sagar tulak pah hawe pun juru mudi hamen. BSB BSB: Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.
5 PBP Mihie pada, lola adalah bagian sa odik teke tubuh, kode lola kaiuh menyombongkan hal-hal idu. Iteleh miiro lagane jompon sa rakit ulah apui sa miiro odik. BSB BSB: In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
6 PBP Lola iro kakala apui, erang kaaua dunia kejahatan, sa naimpeh gi helang bagian-bagian tubuh da sakaiuh menajiskan kahai tubuh. Io nyanrakit kahai arah wolum takam sementara io raerai natutung ulah apui naraka. BSB BSB: The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
7 PBP Sabab, kahai jenis eha liar dan wurung, reptil dan eha sa wolum gi laut iro ngampu dan haut naampingampu ulah murunsia, BSB BSB: All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
8 PBP kode bakoi erang kaulun pun kaiuh ngampiampu lola. Lola adalah jahat sa bakoi tanang, ponu anri racun sa nampate. BSB BSB: but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9 PBP Mihie lola takam memberkati Tuhan dan Uma takam, kode anri iro pada takam ngutuk ulun, sa nacipta sarupa anri Allah tala. BSB BSB: With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
10 PBP Teke mulut sa sameh kaluar tawatan dan kutukan. Pulaksanai-pulaksanaiku, saharusne bakoi leh kakala iro. BSB BSB: Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!
11 PBP Inunkah erai mato ranu kaiuh ngaluar ranu mamis dan ranu ampait pada hantek sasinrah? BSB BSB: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
12 PBP Pulaksanai-pulaksanaiku, kaiuhkah kakau ara iro mqahasil ua zaitun; atawa kakau anggur mahasil ua ara? mihie pada, mato ranu maerang bakoi mahasil ranu sa segar. BSB BSB: My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
13 PBP Hiekah gi helang iko sa bahikmat dan ba kataruen? Ikeehleh anri sikap ne sa maasus, io nutui pigawian-pigawianne huang kelebutan dan hikmat. BSB BSB: Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
14 PBP Kode, jaka iko ngompun bihiri ate sa ponu kaampaitan dan ambisi sa egois gi huang ateko, adaleh bangga dan ada poojo dawan kabujuren. BSB BSB: But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
15 PBP Hikmat kakala iru bakoi dolui teke obo, kode teke dunia, bakoi rohani, dan jahat BSB BSB: Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16 PBP Amun naan bihiri ate dan ambiei sa egois, gi yiiro naan kekacauan dan segala masam pigawian jahat. BSB BSB: For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
17 PBP Hikmat sa hawi teke oboprtama-tama adalah murni, kamulek sidi damai, lemah lembut, ponu ahilelu dan ua-ua sa maasus, bakoi membeda-bedakan, bakoi munafik BSB BSB: But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
18 PBP Ua kabujuren na hamur huang damai ulah kawan pandamai. BSB BSB: Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
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