2:1 | Hama dzangu, mukati mokutenda kwokubwinya kwaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu, musatsaura vanhu. |
2:2 | Nokuti kana mumwe munhu akapinda mukereke yenyu ane mhete yegoridhe nenguo dzinobwinya, uye kana murombo akapindawo, muhembe dzine tsvina, |
2:3 | uye kana mukanyatsoteerera uyo akapfeka nguo dzakaisvonaka, zvokuti munoti kwaari, “Unogona kugara panzvimbo ino yakanaka,” asi imi munoti kumurombo, “Iwe mira ipapo,” kana, “Gara pasi pechitsiko chetsoka dzangu,” |
2:4 | hamusi kutonga mukati menyu here?, uye hamuna kuva vatongi vane pfungwa dzisina kururama here? |
2:5 | Hama dzangu dzinodikamwa, teerera. Ko, Mwari haana kusarudza varombo venyika ino kuti vave vapfumi pakutenda navadyi venhaka youshe hwakavimbiswa naMwari kuna vanomuda here?? |
2:6 | But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment? |
2:7 | Are not they the ones who blaspheme the good name which has been invoked over you? |
2:8 | So if you perfect the regal law, maererano neMagwaro, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” then you do well. |
2:9 | But if you show favoritism to persons, then you commit a sin, having been convicted again by the law as transgressors. |
2:10 | Now whoever has observed the whole law, yet who offends in one matter, has become guilty of all. |
2:11 | For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not kill.” So if you do not commit adultery, but you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law. |
2:12 | So speak and act just as you are beginning to be judged, by the law of liberty. |
2:13 | For judgment is without mercy toward him who has not shown mercy. But mercy exalts itself above judgment. |
2:14 | Hama dzangu, zvinobatsirei kana munhu achiti ane kutenda, asi haana mabasa? Kutenda kwaizogona sei kumuponesa? |
2:15 | Saka kana hama kana hanzvadzi yakashama uye ichishayiwa zvokudya zuva rimwe nerimwe, |
2:16 | uye kana mumwe wenyu akati kwavari: “Enda norugare, mudziyirwe uye muremekedzwe,” asi musavapa izvo zvinodikanwa nomuviri, izvi zvinobatsirei? |
2:17 | Nokudaro kunyange kutenda, kana isina mabasa, akafa, mukati uye pachayo. |
2:18 | Zvino mumwe munhu angati: “Iwe une kutenda, uye ndine mabasa. Ndiratidze kutenda kwako kusina mabasa! Asi ini ndichakuratidza kutenda kwangu namabasa. |
2:19 | Iwe unotenda kuti kuna Mwari mumwe chete. unoita zvakanaka. Asi madhimoni anotendawo, uye vanodedera zvikuru. |