< James 1 >
1 James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which [are] in the dispersion, greeting.
JAKUB, a servant of Aloha and of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, unto the twelve tribes who are dispersed among the nations: Peace.
2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,
All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various.
3 knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.
For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience;
4 But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
but to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient.
5 But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask of Aloha, who giveth to all expansively, and upbraideth not, and it is given to him.
6 but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;
But let him ask in faith, not wavering. For he who wavereth is like the waves of the sea which the wind disturbeth.
7 for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;
And let not that man expect to receive any thing from the Lord,
8 [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
who is divided in his mind, and disturbed in all his ways.
9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,
But let the humble brother glory in his exaltation,
10 and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away.
and the rich in his humility; for as the flower of an herb, so he passeth.
11 For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses.
12 Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.
Blessed the man who endureth temptations: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which Aloha hath promised unto them who love him.
13 Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.
Let no man say, when he is tempted, From Aloha I am tempted; for Aloha is not tempted with evils, and he no man tempteth.
14 But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;
But each man from his concupiscence tempteth himself, and desireth, and is drawn away.
15 then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.
And this desire conceiveth and beareth sin; and sin, when it is perfected, beareth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Do not err, my beloved brethren;
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning.
every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude.
18 According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.
He willed, and begat us by the word of truth, that we might be the first-ones of his creatures.
19 So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry;
20 for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.
for the wrath of man the righteousness of Aloha worketh not.
21 Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.
BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive yourselves.
23 For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:
For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this (man) is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror;
24 for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.
for he seeth himself and passeth, and hath forgotten what (manner of person) he was.
25 But he that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of [the] work, he shall be blessed in his doing.
But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.
26 If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
And if a man thinketh that he serveth Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain.
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
For the service which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish.