Jakoba 1
1 Iakobe, fetrek’oron’ Añahare naho i Talè Iesoà Norizañey, Ho amo foko folo ro’amby miparaitake an-tsese-tane añeo: Talilio areo.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 Ee t’ie hatao ho hafaleañe pea, ry longo naho mizo fitsohañe ankafankafa,
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.
3 fohiñe te minday fahaliñisañe ty fitsohañe o fatokisa’ areoo.
Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 Le apoho ho heneke i fahaliñisañey, soa t’ie ho vañoñe naho fonitse tsy hipay ndra inoñ’ inoñe.
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 Aa naho ama’ areo ty mipay hilala, soa re te hihalaly aman’ Añahare, fa hene atarìha’e tsy aman-tìñe, vaho hitolorañe.
If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.
6 Ie mihalaly, le am-patokisañe tsy mifejofejo, fa am-panahafeñe ami’ty onjan-driak’ asiotsion-tioke, mivalitaboake mb’etia mb’eroa, ty mitroetroe am-patokisañe,
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 Ee te tsy hitamà handrambe ndra inoñ’inoñe amy Talè indatiy.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.
8 Maletroletro amy ze fonga sata’e ty milolohe vatavo roe.
A man unsettled in his opinions [is] unstable in all his ways.
9 Ehe te hirenge ami’ty halohà’e ty longo trentrañe;
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 le amy fañivañ’ azey i mpañalealey, ie himosaoñe manahake o voñen’ ahetseo.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 Ie manjirik’ an-katrovòha’e reketse tio-mae i àndroy, le miheatse o ahetseo, mihintsañe o voñe’eo vaho mikò-mavo ty hasoa-vinta’e. Hoe izay ty hiforejejea’ ty mpañaleale amo fitoloña’eo.
For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Haha t’indaty mahafeake fitsohañe, fa ie ventèñe ro handrambe i sabakan-kaveloñe nampitamà’ i Talè o mpikoko azeoy.
Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
13 Aa ie zizieñe t’indaty, ee te tsy hanoe’e ty hoe: Azizin’ Añahare iraho. Amy te tsy mete zizien-draty t’i Andrianañahare vaho tsy zizie’e t’ondaty;
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 f’ie songa zizieñe te kozozote’ o drao raty manigìk’ azeo.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
15 Ie miareñe i hasiji’ey le mitoly hakeo; ie añoñ’ay i tahiñey le mampikoromake.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Mitaoa tsy ho fitaheñe ry longo sarotse.
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Boak’ ambone añe iaby ze raha soa natolotse naho ze falalàñe, mizotso hirik’ aman-dRaen-kazavàñe; ie tsy mihotike, tsy an-kaieñe te mihodiñe.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 An-satri’e ty nampiareña’e an-tika ami’ty tsara to, ho karazan-doha-voa amo namboare’eo.
Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
19 Aa le soa ry longoko sarotseo te songa havitrik’ am-pitsendreñañe naho malea an-tsaontsy vaho malaoñe an-kaviñerañe,
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 amy te tsy mitoloñe ami’ty havantañan’ Añahare ty haboseha’ ondaty.
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Apoho iaby arè ze haleorañe naho haratiañe ila’e, vaho rambeso an-trentram-po i tsara tinongy maharombake ty fiai’ areoy.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 Toloño i tsaray, le ko mijanjiñe avao hamañahy vatañe.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 Naho mpijanjin-tsara t’indaty, fa tsy mitoloñe, le ampanahafeñe amy t’indaty mihetsoro laharañe.
For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 Ie mahaisa-batañe naho mienga, ro mañaliño i vintañe nioni’e anianiy.
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 Fe ze mibiribiry i Hake famotsorañe hiringiri’ey, naho mañambeñe aze, tsy manao fijanjiñam-bei-areke, fa mpifanehak’ amy fitoloñañey, ro tahieñe amo sata’eo.
But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [in it], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 Naho eo ty mieva ho mpitalaho, fa tsy vahora’e i famele’ey le mamañahy troke, vaho kafoake o fitalahoa’eo.
If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
27 Zao ty fitalahoañe hiringiri’e tsy aman-kila añatrefan’ Añahare Rae: le ty fitilihañe bode-rae naho vantotse amo fisotria’eo, vaho ty fifoneñañe tsy ho pepoe’ ty voatse toy.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
