雅各书 第 1 章
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。
1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
4但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全、完备，毫无缺欠。
4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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。
5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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。
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
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。
10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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。
11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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。
12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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。
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14但各人被试探，乃是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的。
14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15私欲既怀了胎，就生出罪来；罪既长成，就生出死来。
15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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。
17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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。
18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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，
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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。
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22只是你们要行道，不要单单听道，自己欺哄自己。
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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，
23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24看见，走后，随即忘了他的相貌如何。
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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。
25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.