1 PBS Pewa nete, ekaki pa ebe hahoele, pe wa taa benana mota huto eeing hupala fefe lewa no meme. BSB BSB: What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
2 PBS Ja ung mepule pa, mepopo kape, hufepa, teba meba. Jana mepepe kape pa ena keking pa eba hahai le. Jana mepepe kape, hana mewaka. 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 PBS Hona ra mewa pa, jana mepeka ing, robe pepeing, mewa fe. Peanya melawo, hupala noong meme, hupala fefe. 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 PBS Hei, ebapha ja aele elona, elako le, fitoe koho efei, epa Tata. Peanya, ba?Jano hefe kelo fitowe, nokeke kele Tata kehokewei. 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 PBS Piha me ong, hanara topo ele, Tata pinape, "Roh Tata kekewa nepara nene ing, ja kefa."? BSB BSB: Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
6 PBS Tata anugrah bepalo. Peanya ropo eko, nukote, Tata ke pulika, teba nenaroete. Pa, Anugrah kewele teba hupala hefe." BSB BSB: But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 PBS Peanya, nepara mepepe te Tata, ja fefe, kebatefa ke, memapung ura, keme futitile. BSB BSB: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 PBS No, mepapa te Tata kera no kenawenala, nememe no melope kototo, hei eba nele, hupala mepeko toto, Teba hupala hitu. 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 PBS Teba, pimepe hupala fela lu popa, hupa pung hefe te lewa hupala fefe. BSB BSB: Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10 PBS Hupala mepeko hefefa mepepa Tata Ura me kekeeti, ka hofea. BSB BSB: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 PBS Jopalala teba menamimika, teba mepopa menami kimpame hoho pepe mepaka. Menafe meme menapo umpa mepa kope, teba Tata kehoke tetapi. Meba Tata pitike mepaing, mebahefe piti keke, metape ing mebafe. 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 PBS Hanara, keba oling hefe ke keing Tata Yesus Kristus, kea mekeleko hefe keara, ari kelokiki le, Eing banya teba elopa lafo ele? 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?
14 PBS Hana ro, eloka jalewawa febafea. Tonane hupala meme?Hupala ing pehangra papang jole, atale pa pete lete. 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 PBS E, bamua piti elala,"Hanara Tata pule umpa, newe netenene pa, jaing netete na jano nerero. BSB BSB: Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
16 PBS Ua ing ne elano peing ja fetata. BSB BSB: As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
17 PBS Peanya elo, janopa hefefa mepememe pai ja ing, mepeka ing, meba fe, meba nole. BSB BSB: Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
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