James 1
1 James, the seruaunt of God, and of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, to the twelue kinredis, that ben in scatering abrood, helthe.
Jakob Boga in Gospoda Jezusa Kristusa hlapec, dvanajsterim rodom v raztrosu: zdravi!
2 My britheren, deme ye al ioye, whanne ye fallen in to diuerse temptaciouns, witynge,
Za vso radost vam bodi, bratje moji, ako ste padli v mnogotere izkušnjave,
3 that the preuyng of youre feith worchith pacience;
Spoznavajoč, da izkušnja vere vaše nareja stanovitnost;
4 and pacience hath a perfit werk, that ye be perfit and hole, and faile in no thing.
Stanovitnost pa imej delo popolno, da bodete popolni in dovršeni, v ničemur pogrešni.
5 And if ony of you nedith wisdom, axe he of God, which yyueth to alle men largeli, and vpbreidith not; and it schal be youun to hym.
Če pa ima kdo izmed vas premalo modrosti, prosi je naj od Boga, kateri vsem daje obilo, in nikomur ne oponaša; in dala se mu bode.
6 But axe he in feith, and doute no thing; for he that doutith, is lijk to a wawe of the see, which is moued and borun a boute of wynde.
Prosi pa naj v veri, brez dvomljenja; kdor namreč dvomi, podoben je valu morskemu, ki ga veter goni in premetava.
7 Therfor gesse not the ilke man, that he schal take ony thing of the Lord.
Naj namreč ne misli tisti človek, da bode kaj dobil od Gospoda;
8 A man dowble in soule is vnstable in alle hise weies.
Mož omahljiv je nestanoviten na vseh potih svojih.
9 And a meke brother haue glorie in his enhaunsyng,
Ponaša pa naj se brat nizki v visokosti svoji;
10 and a riche man in his lownesse; for as the flour of gras he schal passe.
Bogati pa v ponižnosti svoji, kajti minil bode kakor trave cvet.
11 The sunne roos vp with heete, and driede the gras, and the flour of it felde doun, and the fairnesse of his chere perischide; and so a riche man welewith in hise weies.
Kajti vzšlo je solnce z vročino in posušilo je travo, in cvet njen je odpadel, in lepota lica njenega je izginila. Tako bode tudi bogatin zvenil na potih svojih.
12 Blessid is the man, that suffrith temptacioun; for whanne he schal be preued, he schal resseyue the coroun of lijf, which God biheyte to men that louen hym.
Blagor možu, kateri prebije izkušnjavo; ker izkušen zadobode venec življenja, katerega je obljubil Gospod njim, ki ga ljubijo.
13 No man whanne he is temptid, seie, that he is temptid of God; for whi God is not a temptere of yuele thingis, for he temptith no man.
Nihče naj, izkušan, ne reče: Od Boga sem izkušan; kajti Bog je neizkušljiv v hudo, in sam ne izkuša nikogar.
14 But ech man is temptid, drawun and stirid of his owne coueiting.
Sleherni pa je izkušan, kogar lastna sla vleče in vabi;
15 Aftirward coueityng, whanne it hath conseyued, bringith forth synne; but synne, whanne it is fillid, gendrith deth.
Potem ko je sla izpočela, rodi pregreho, pregreha pa, ko je dovršena, rodí smrt.
16 Therfor, my most dereworthe britheren, nyle ye erre.
Ne tavajte, bratje moji ljubljeni;
17 Ech good yifte, and ech perfit yifte is from aboue, and cometh doun fro the fadir of liytis, anentis whom is noon other chaungyng, ne ouerschadewyng of reward.
Vsak dober dar in vsako darilo popolno prihaja dol od očeta luči, pri katerem ni izpremembe ali osenčanja obrnitve.
18 For wilfulli he bigat vs bi the word of treuthe, that we be a bigynnyng of his creature.
Po volji svoji nas je rodil po besedi resnice, da bodimo neka prvina stvarî njegovih.
19 Wite ye, my britheren moost loued, be ech man swift to here, but slow to speke, and slow to wraththe;
Zatorej, bratje moji ljubljeni, bodi vsak človek nagel v poslušanje, počasen v govorjenje, počasen v jezo;
20 for the wraththe of man worchith not the riytwisnesse of God.
Kajti jeza človekova ne dela pravice Božje.
21 For which thing caste ye awei al vnclennesse, and plentee of malice, and in myldenesse resseyue ye the word that is plauntid, that may saue youre soulis.
Zato odloživši sleherno nesnago in obilost hudobije sprejmite v krotkosti vsajeno besedo, ki more rešiti duše vaše.
22 But be ye doeris of the word, and not hereris oneli, disseiuynge you silf.
Bodite pa delalci besede in ne samo poslušalci, ki se sami slepé.
23 For if ony man is an herere of the word, and not a doere, this schal be licned to a man that biholdith the cheer of his birthe in a mirour;
Ker če je kdo poslušalec besede, ne pa delalec, on je podoben možu, ki ogleduje v ogledalu rojstva svojega obličje;
24 for he bihelde hym silf, and wente awei, and anoon he foryat which he was.
Pogledal se je namreč in odšel, in hitro je pozabil, kakošen je bil.
25 But he that biholdith in the lawe of perfit fredom, and dwellith in it, and is not maad a foryetful herere, but a doere of werk, this schal be blessid in his dede.
Kdor pa je pogledal v popolno postavo svobode in v njej ostal on, ki ni postal pozabljiv poslušalec nego delalec dela, on bode srečen v dejanji svojem.
26 And if ony man gessith hym silf to be religiouse, and refreyneth not his tunge, but disseyueth his herte, the religioun of him is veyn.
Če meni kdo med vami, da je bogaboječ, pa ne brzda jezika svojega, nego vara svoje srce, njegova bogaboječnost je ničeva.
27 A clene religioun, and an vnwemmed anentis God and the fadir, is this, to visite fadirles and modirles children, and widewis in her tribulacioun, and to kepe hym silf vndefoulid fro this world.
Bogaboječnost čista in neoskrunjena pred Bogom in očetom je ta, skrbeti za sirote in vdove v njih stiski, neomadeževanega se braniti od sveta.
