Gia-cơ

问候

1作 神和主耶稣基督仆人的雅各请散住十二个支派之人的安。

信心和智慧

2我的弟兄们，你们落在百般试炼中，都要以为大喜乐；

3因为知道你们的信心经过试验，就生忍耐。

4但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全、完备，毫无缺欠。

5你们中间若有缺少智慧的，应当求那厚赐与众人、也不斥责人的 神，主就必赐给他。

6只要凭着信心求，一点不疑惑；因为那疑惑的人，就像海中的波浪，被风吹动翻腾。

7这样的人不要想从主那里得什么。

8心怀二意的人，在他一切所行的路上都没有定见。

贫穷和富有

9卑微的弟兄升高，就该喜乐；

10富足的降卑，也该如此；因为他必要过去，如同草上的花一样。

11太阳出来，热风刮起，草就枯干，花也凋谢，美容就消没了；那富足的人，在他所行的事上也要这样衰残。

考验和试探

12忍受试探的人是有福的，因为他经过试验以后，必得生命的冠冕；这是主应许给那些爱他之人的。

13人被试探，不可说：「我是被 神试探」；因为 神不能被恶试探，他也不试探人。

14但各人被试探，乃是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的。

15私欲既怀了胎，就生出罪来；罪既长成，就生出死来。

16我亲爱的弟兄们，不要看错了。

17各样美善的恩赐和各样全备的赏赐都是从上头来的，从众光之父那里降下来的；在他并没有改变，也没有转动的影儿。

18他按自己的旨意，用真道生了我们，叫我们在他所造的万物中好像初熟的果子。

听道和行道

19我亲爱的弟兄们，这是你们所知道的。但你们各人要快快地听，慢慢地说，慢慢地动怒，

20因为人的怒气并不成就 神的义。

21所以，你们要脱去一切的污秽和盈余的邪恶，存温柔的心领受那所栽种的道，就是能救你们灵魂的道。

22只是你们要行道，不要单单听道，自己欺哄自己。

23因为听道而不行道的，就像人对着镜子看自己本来的面目，

24看见，走后，随即忘了他的相貌如何。

25惟有详细察看那全备、使人自由之律法的，并且时常如此，这人既不是听了就忘，乃是实在行出来，就在他所行的事上必然得福。

26若有人自以为虔诚，却不勒住他的舌头，反欺哄自己的心，这人的虔诚是虚的。

27在 神我们的父面前，那清洁没有玷污的虔诚，就是看顾在患难中的孤儿寡妇，并且保守自己不沾染世俗。

1James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

2My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;

3Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

5But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.

7Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

9But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:

10And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

11For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

13Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.

14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

15Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

16Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

17Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.

18For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.

19You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.

20For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

21Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.

24For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

25But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

27Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one’s self unspotted from this world.