James 1
1 James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.
Jacob, a servant of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, to the twelve tribes which are in the Diaspora: Greetings.
2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
3 Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,
For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
8 the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways.
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 But let the humble brother boast in his exaltation:
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
10 and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
11 For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
12 Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
13 Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one:
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14 but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
15 Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
18 Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations.
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
19 Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
20 for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23 For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
24 for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was.
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.
But he who looks into the perfect Torah of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
26 But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
27 Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
