James 2
1 My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons:
我兄弟等よ、汝等光榮なる我主イエズス、キリストに於る信仰を保ちて、人に依怙ある事勿れ。
2 for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel,
蓋汝等の集に美服して金の指環を嵌めたる人入來り、又粗服したる貧しき人入來らんに、
3 and ye look upon him who wears the splendid apparel, and say, Do thou sit here well, and say to the poor, Do thou stand there, or sit here under my footstool:
汝等美服したる人を顧みて、宜しく此處に坐せよと言ひ、貧しき人には、其處に立て或は我が足台の下に坐せよ、と言はば、
4 have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts?
是心の中に隔して料簡正しからざる審判者と成るに非ずや。
5 Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?
我至愛なる兄弟等よ、聞け、神は此世に於る貧者を選みて信仰に富める者と成らしめ、神が己を愛し奉る人々に約し給ひし國の世嗣たらしめ給ひしに非ずや。
6 But ye have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and [do not] they drag you before [the] tribunals?
然るに汝等は貧者を卑しめたり。富者は勢力を以て汝等を壓し、且自ら法廷に牽くに非ずや、
7 And [do not] they blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you?
汝等の上に稱へられたる善き名を穢すに非ずや。
8 If indeed ye keep [the] royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.
但し汝等もし聖書に從ひて、「汝己が近き者を己の如く愛せよ」との王的律法を守らば、其為す所や宜し。
9 But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
然れど若人に對して依怙あらば、是罪を犯して、犯人として律法に咎めらるるなり。
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.
其は誰にもあれ、律法を悉く守るも、一點の犯す所あらば、一切に對して有罪となればなり。
11 For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become transgressor of [the] law.
蓋、「汝姦淫する勿れ」と曰ひし者は又、「殺す勿れ」と曰ひしが故に、假令姦淫せざるも殺す事あらば、是律法の違反者たるなり。
12 So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by [the] law of liberty;
然れば汝等語るにも行ふにも、恰も自由の律法を以て審判せらるべき者の如くにせよ。
13 for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.
蓋審判は慈悲を為さざる人に慈悲なき者にして、慈悲は審判に勝つものなり。
14 What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?
我兄弟等よ、假令人自ら信仰ありと謂ふとも、行なくば何の益かあらん、信仰豈之を救ふを得んや。
15 Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
若兄弟姉妹の赤裸にして日々の食物に乏しからんに、
16 and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what [is] the profit?
汝等の中彼等に對ひて、心安く往きて身を暖め、飽くまで食せよ、と言ふ人ありとも、身に要する物を與へずば何の益かあらん。
17 So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.
信仰も亦斯くの如し、行なくば死したるものなり。
18 But some one will say, Thou hast faith and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works, and I from my works will shew thee my faith.
然るに人或は言はん、汝は信仰あり我は行あり、行なき汝の信仰を我に示せ、然らば我も亦行によりて我が信仰を汝に示さん、
19 Thou believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.
汝は神の唯一にて在す事を信ず、其為す所や宜し、惡魔も信じて戰慄くなりと。
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
空なる人よ、行なき信仰の死したるものなるを知らん事を欲するか、
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
我父アブラハムは、祭壇の上に其子イザアクを献げて、行によりて義とせられしに非ずや。
22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.
信仰が彼の行と共に働きし事と、行によりて信仰の全うせられし事とは汝の見る所なり。
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.
而して聖書に、「アブラハム神を信じたり、斯て此事義として彼に歸せられたり」と在ること成就し、彼は神の愛人とせられたり。
24 Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.
人の義とせらるるは、唯信仰のみに由らずして行に由るを見ずや。
25 But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put [them] forth by another way?
是と等しく娼婦ラハブも、使等を承けて外の道より去らしめ、行によりて義とせられしに非ずや。
26 For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
蓋霊なき肉體の死せるが如く、行なき信仰も亦死せるなり。
