雅各书 1
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
以试炼为喜乐
1 神和主耶稣基督的仆人雅各,向散居各地的十二支派问安。 2 我的弟兄们,你们遭遇各种试炼的时候,都要看为喜乐; 3 因为知道你们的信心经过考验,就产生忍耐。 4 但忍耐要坚持到底(“坚持到底”原文作“有完全的功效”),使你们可以完全,毫无缺乏。 5 你们中间若有人缺少智慧,就当向那厚赐众人,而且不斥责人的 神祈求,他就必得着。 6 可是,他应该凭着信心祈求,不要有疑惑;因为疑惑的人,就像被风吹荡翻腾的海浪。 7 那样的人,不要想从主得到甚么; 8 因为三心两意的人,在他的一切道路上,都摇摆不定。
富贵荣华转眼消逝
9 卑微的弟兄应当以高升为荣; 10 富足的也不应该以降卑为辱;因为他如同草上的花,必要过去。 11 太阳一出,热风一吹,草必枯干,花必凋谢,它的美容就消失了;富足的人也必在他的奔波经营中这样衰落。
忍受试炼的人有福了
12 能忍受试炼的人,是有福的;因为他经过考验之后,必得着生命的冠冕,这冠冕是主应许给爱他的人的。 13 人被试探,不可说“我被 神试探”;因为 神不能被恶试探,他也不试探任何人。 14 每一个人受试探,都是被自己的私欲所勾引诱惑的。 15 私欲怀了胎,就生出罪;罪长成了,就产生死亡。
16 我亲爱的弟兄们,不要看错了。 17 各样美好的赏赐,各样完备的恩赐,都是从上面、从众光之父降下来的,他本身并没有改变,也没有转动的影子。 18 他凭着自己的旨意,借着真理的道生了我们,使我们作他所造的万物中初熟的果子。
要作行道的人
19 我亲爱的弟兄们,你们要知道,人人都应该快快地听,慢慢地说,慢一点动怒; 20 因为人的忿怒并不能成全 神的义。 21 所以你们应当摆脱一切污秽和所有的邪恶,以温柔的心领受 神栽种的道;这道能救你们的灵魂。
22 你们应该作行道的人,不要单作听道的人,自己欺骗自己; 23 因为人若只作听道的人,不作行道的人,他就像一个人对着镜子看自己本来的面貌, 24 看过走开以后,马上就忘记自己的样子。 25 唯有详细察看那使人自由的全备的律法,并且时常遵守的人,他不是听了就忘记,而是实行出来,就必因自己所作的蒙福。
26 如果有人自以为虔诚,却不约束他的舌头,反而自己欺骗自己,这人的虔诚是没有用的。 27 在父 神看来,纯洁无玷污的虔诚,就是照顾患难中的孤儿寡妇,并且保守自己不被世俗所污染。
雅各書 1
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
1 我是作上帝和主耶穌基督奴僕的雅各,問候散居各地的十二支派的人。
信心和忍耐
2 我的弟兄姊妹,當你們遭遇各種磨煉的時候,都要認為是喜樂的事。 3 要知道你們的信心經過考驗會產生堅忍。 4 你們要堅忍到底,使你們纯全、完備、毫無缺欠。
5 如果你們誰缺少智慧,就當求慷慨施恩、不責備人的上帝,上帝必賜給他智慧。 6-8 但他要憑信心毫不疑惑地祈求,因為疑惑的人三心二意,行事為人沒有定見,就像海上隨風翻騰的波濤,這種人從主那裡什麼也得不到。
9 卑微的弟兄高升,應當快樂。 10 富有的弟兄降卑,也要快樂,因為他會像花草一樣衰殘。 11 驕陽升起,草就乾枯,花也凋謝,美麗就消失了。富有的人在忙忙碌碌中也會如此衰殘。
12 在試煉中能夠忍耐到底的人有福了,因為他若經得起考驗,就會得到主應許賜給愛祂之人的生命冠冕。 13 當人受到誘惑時,不可說:「是上帝在誘惑我。」因為上帝不受邪惡的誘惑,也不誘惑人。 14 其實每個受到誘惑的人都是受自己的私慾慫恿和誘惑。 15 私慾懷了胎,便生出罪,罪一旦長成,便帶來死亡。
16 我親愛的弟兄姊妹,不要上當受騙。 17 一切良善的施予和完美的恩賜都是從天上,從眾光之父那裡來的。祂不像轉動的影子變幻無常。 18 祂按照自己的旨意,藉著真道重生了我們,使我們在祂所造的萬物之中好像初熟的果實。
聽道與行道
19 我親愛的弟兄姊妹,請記住:每個人都要快快地聽,慢慢地說,慢慢地動怒。 20 因為人的憤怒不能成就上帝的公義。 21 所以你們要除去所有的污穢和一切的惡習,謙卑地領受那已經栽種在你們心裡、能救你們靈魂的真道。
22 你們要行道,不要只是聽道,自己欺騙自己。 23 因為人聽道而不行道,就像照鏡子一樣, 24 看過後就走了,隨即忘記了自己的容貌。 25 但詳細查考那使人得自由的全備律法並且持之以恆的人,不是聽了就忘,而是身體力行,這樣的人必在他所行的事上蒙福。
26 如果有人自以為虔誠,卻不勒住自己的舌頭,就等於是自己欺騙自己,他的所謂虔誠也毫無價值。 27 在父上帝看來,純潔無暇的虔誠是指照顧患難中的孤兒寡婦,並且不讓自己被世俗玷污。
James 1
King James Version
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 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 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 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 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 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 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 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.
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