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1 神及び我主イエズス、キリストの僕ヤコボ、離散せる十二族に挨拶す。
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 第一項 患難及び誘惑に於る忍耐を勧む 我兄弟等よ、汝等種々の試に陥りたる時は、之を最も喜ぶべき事と思へ。
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;
3 其は汝等の信仰の試は、忍耐を生ずるを知ればなり。
knowing that the trying of your faith worketh endurance.
4 然れど汝等が完全無缺にして、何事も乏しき所なからん為に、忍耐は完全なる業を為さざるべからず。
But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.
5 汝等の中に知識を要する人あらば、誰をも咎めめ給はずして吝なく賜ふ神に願ひ奉るべし、然らば與へられん。
But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.
6 但疑ふ事なく信仰を以て願はざるべからず、蓋疑ふ者は風に動かされて、漂へる海の波に似たれば、
But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
7 斯る人は主より何物をも受けんと期する事勿れ、
For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord,
8 是二心ある人にして、其凡ての道に於て定まり無ければなり。
a double-minded man as he is, unstable in all his ways.
9 兄弟の卑き者は其高められしを大いに喜ぶべく、
Let the brother of low degree glory in that he is exalted;
10 富める者は、己が卑きによりて喜ぶべし。是将に草の花の如くに過ぎんとすればなり。
but the rich, in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
11 夫日出でて焦くれば、草は枯れて其花は落ち、其面の美しさは失せたり。富める者の其道に於て凋むべき事も亦斯の如し。
For the sun rose with its burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 試を忍ぶ人は福なり、其は鍛錬を経て後、神の己を愛奉る人々に約し給ひし生命の冠を得べければなり。
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.
13 誰も誘はるるに當りて、神より誘はると謂ふべからず。蓋神は惡に誘はれ給ふ事能はざれば、誰をも誘ひ給ふ事なし。
Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempteth no one.
14 各の誘はるるは、己の慾に惹かれ惑はされてなり、
But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;
15 斯て慾の孕むや罪を産み、罪の全うせらるるや死を生ず。
then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth forth death.
16 然れば我至愛なる兄弟等よ、過つ事勿れ、
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 総て善き賜と完全なる恵とは上よりして、變更なく回転の影なき光の父より降る。
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow from turning.
18 蓋被造物の初穂の如きものたらしめん為に、御心よりして眞理の言を以て我等を生み給ひしなり。
Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
19 第二項 活動する信仰の必要 我至愛なる兄弟等よ、汝等は知れり、人総て聞くに疾く、語るに遅かるべし。
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
20 其は人の怒は神の義を為さざればなり。
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 然れば汝等一切の穢らはしき事と、夥しき惡事とを脱棄て、汝等に植ゑられて汝等の霊魂を救ふべき御言を穏に承容れよ。
Wherefore put off all filthiness, and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 斯て汝等自ら欺きて聴聞者たるに止らず、言の實行者と成れ。
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 蓋人もし言の聴聞者にして實行者に非ずば、鏡に寫して生來の顔を見る人に似たるべし。
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 glass;
24 即ち己が姿を見て退くや、直に其如何に在りしかを忘る。
for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.
25 然れども自由の完全なる律法を鑑みて之に止る者は、忘れ勝ちなる聴聞者と成らずして業の實行者と成る。斯る人は、其為す所に由りて福なるべし。
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.
26 人若自ら宗教家なりと思ひつつ、其舌を制せずして己が心を欺かば、其宗教は無益なり。
If any one thinks that he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 父にて在す神の御前に潔くして穢れなき宗教は、孤児寡婦を其困難に當りて訪問し、自ら守りて世間に穢されざる事是なり。
Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
