| 雅各伯書 |
James |
| 1天主及主耶穌基督的僕人雅各伯，祝散居的十二支派安好。 |
1 James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings. |
| 2我的弟兄們，幾時你們落在各種試探裏，要認為是大喜樂， |
2Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, |
| 3因為你們應知道：你們的信德受過考驗，纔能生出堅忍。 |
3for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. |
| 4但這堅忍又必須有完美的實行，好使你們既成全而又完備，毫無缺欠。 |
4And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. |
| 5你們中誰若缺乏智慧，就該向那慷慨施恩於眾人，而從不責斥的天主祈求，天主必賜給他。 |
5But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it. |
| 6不過，祈求時要有信心，決不可懷疑，因為懷疑的人，就像海裏的波濤，被風吹動，翻騰不已。 |
6But he should ask in faith, not doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed about by the wind. |
| 7這樣的人，不要妄想從主那裏得到什麼。 |
7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, |
| 8三心兩意的人，在他一切的行徑上，易變無定。 |
8since he is a man of two minds, unstable in all his ways. |
| 9貧賤的弟兄，要因高升而誇耀； |
9The brother in lowly circumstances should take pride in his high standing, |
| 10富有的，卻要因自卑而誇耀，因為他要過去，如同草上的花一樣： |
10and the rich one in his lowliness, for he will pass away "like the flower of the field." |
| 11太陽一出來，帶着熱風，將草曬枯，它的花便凋謝了，它的美麗也消失了；富有的人在自己的行為上，也要這樣衰落。 |
11For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, its flower droops, and the beauty of its appearance vanishes. So will the rich person fade away in the midst of his pursuits. |
| 12忍受試探的人是有福的，因為他既經得起考驗，必能得到主向愛他的人，所預許的生命之冠。 |
12Blessed is the man who perseveres in temptation, for when he has been proved he will receive the crown of life that he promised to those who love him. |
| 13人受誘惑，不可說：「我為天主所誘惑」，因為天主不會為惡事所誘惑，他也不誘惑人。 |
13 No one experiencing temptation should say, "I am being tempted by God"; for God is not subject to temptation to evil, and he himself tempts no one. |
| 14每個人受誘惑，都是為自己的私慾所勾引，所餌誘； |
14Rather, each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. |
| 15然後，私慾懷孕，便產生罪惡；罪惡完成之後，遂生出死亡來。 |
15Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death. |
| 16我親愛的弟兄們，你們切不要錯誤！ |
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: |
| 17一切美好的贈與，一切完善的恩賜，都是從上，從光明之父降下來的，在他內沒有變化或轉動的陰影。 |
17all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. |
| 18他自願用真理之言生了我們，為使我們成為他所造之物中的初果。 |
18He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. |
| 19我親愛的弟兄們，你們要知道：每人都該敏於聽教，遲於發言，遲於動怒， |
19Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, |
| 20因為人的忿怒，並不成全天主的正義。 |
20for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God. |
| 21因此，你們要脫去一切不潔和種種惡習，而以柔順之心，接受那種在你們心裏，而能救你們靈魂的聖言。 |
21Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. |
| 22不過，你們應按這聖言來實行，不要只聽，自己欺騙自己； |
22Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. |
| 23因為，誰若只聽聖言而不去實行，他就像一個人，對着鏡子照自己生來的面貌， |
23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror. |
| 24照完以後，就離去，遂即忘卻了自己是什麼樣子。 |
24He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like. |
| 25至於那細察賜予自由的完美法律，而又保持不變，不隨聽隨忘，卻實際力行的，這人因他的作為必是有福的。 |
25But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does. |
| 26誰若自以為虔誠，卻不箝制自己的唇舌，反而欺騙自己的心，這人的虔誠便是虛假的。 |
26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain. |
| 27在天主父前，純正無瑕的虔誠，就是看顧患難中的孤兒和寡婦，保持自己不受世俗的玷污。 |
27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world. |
