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James
1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.5If 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.6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.11For 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.12Blessed 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.13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.16Do not err, my beloved brethren.17Every 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.18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.23For 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:24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.25But 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.26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.27Pure 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.
مقدّمة الرّسالة

1يَعْقُوبُ، عَبْدُ اللهِ وَالرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ المَسِيحِ، يُهْدِي السَّلاَمَ إِلَى الاِثْنَيْ عَشَرَ سِبْطاً الَّذِينَ فِي الشَّتَاتِ.

امتحان الإيمان يُنشيء صبرا

2اِحْسِبُوهُ كُلَّ فَرَحٍ، يَا إِخْوَتِي، حِينَمَا تَقَعُونَ فِي تَجَارِبَ مُتَنَوِّعَةٍ3عَالِمِينَ أَنَّ امْتِحَانَ إِيمَانِكُمْ يُنْشِئُ صَبْراً.4وَأَمَّا الصَّبْرُ فَلْيَكُنْ لَهُ عَمَلٌ تَامٌّ لِكَيْ تَكُونُوا تَامِّينَ وَكَامِلِينَ غَيْرَ نَاقِصِينَ فِي شَيْءٍ.5وَإِنَّمَا إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُكُمْ تُعْوِزُهُ حِكْمَةٌ فَلْيَطْلُبْ مِنَ اللهِ الَّذِي يُعْطِي الْجَمِيعَ بِسَخَاءٍ وَلاَ يُعَيِّرُ، فَسَيُعْطَى لَهُ.6وَلَكِنْ لِيَطْلُبْ بِإِيمَانٍ غَيْرَ مُرْتَابٍ الْبَتَّةَ لأَنَّ المُرْتَابَ يُشْبِهُ مَوْجاً مِنَ الْبَحْرِ تَخْبِطُهُ الرِّيحُ وَتَدْفَعُهُ،7فَلاَ يَظُنَّ ذَلِكَ الإِنْسَانُ أَنَّهُ يَنَالُ شَيْئاً مِنْ عِنْدِ الرَّبِّ.8رَجُلٌ ذُو رَأْيَيْنِ هُوَ مُتَقَلْقِلٌ فِي جَمِيعِ طُرُقِهِ.9وَلْيَفْتَخِرِ الأَخُ المُتَّضِعُ بِارْتِفَاعِهِ،10وَأَمَّا الْغَنِيُّ فَبِاتِّضَاعِهِ لأَنَّهُ كَزَهْرِ الْعُشْبِ يَزُولُ.11لأَنَّ الشَّمْسَ أَشْرَقَتْ بِالْحَرِّ فَيَبَّسَتِ الْعُشْبَ، فَسَقَطَ زَهْرُهُ وَفَنِيَ جَمَالُ مَنْظَرِهِ، هَكَذَا يَذْبُلُ الْغَنِيُّ أَيْضاً فِي طُرُقِهِ.12طُوبَى لِلرَّجُلِ الَّذِي يَحْتَمِلُ التَّجْرِبَةَ، لأَنَّهُ إِذَا تَزَكَّى يَنَالُ إِكْلِيلَ الْحَيَاةِ الَّذِي وَعَدَ بِهِ الرَّبُّ لِلَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَهُ.

13لاَ يَقُلْ أَحَدٌ، إِذَا جُرِّبَ: إِنِّي أُجَرَّبُ مِنْ قِبَلِ اللهِ، لأَنَّ اللهَ غَيْرُ مُجَرَّبٍ بِالشُّرُورِ وَهُوَ لاَ يُجَرِّبُ أَحَداً.14وَلَكِنَّ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ يُجَرَّبُ إِذَا انْجَذَبَ وَانْخَدَعَ مِنْ شَهْوَتِهِ،15ثُمَّ الشَّهْوَةُ، إِذَا حَبِلَتْ، تَلِدُ خَطِيَّةً وَالْخَطِيَّةُ، إِذَا كَمَلَتْ، تُنْتِجُ مَوْتاً.16لاَ تَضِلُّوا، يَا إِخْوَتِي الأَحِبَّاءَ.17كُلُّ عَطِيَّةٍ صَالِحَةٍ وَكُلُّ مَوْهِبَةٍ تَامَّةٍ هِيَ مِنْ فَوْقُ نَازِلَةٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَبِي الأَنْوَارِ، الَّذِي لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ تَغْيِيرٌ وَلاَ ظِلُّ دَوَرَانٍ.18شَاءَ فَوَلَدَنَا بِكَلِمَةِ الْحَقِّ لِكَيْ نَكُونَ بَاكُورَةً مِنْ خَلاَئِقِهِ.

سامعي وفاعلي الكلمة

19إِذاً، يَا إِخْوَتِي الأَحِبَّاءَ، لِيَكُنْ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مُسْرِعاً فِي الاِسْتِمَاعِ، مُبْطِئاً فِي التَّكَلُّمِ، مُبْطِئاً فِي الْغَضَبِ،20لأَنَّ غَضَبَ الإِنْسَانِ لاَ يَصْنَعُ بِرَّ اللهِ.21لِذَلِكَ اطْرَحُوا كُلَّ نَجَاسَةٍ وَكَثْرَةَ شَرٍّ فَاقْبَلُوا بِوَدَاعَةٍ الْكَلِمَةَ المَغْرُوسَةَ الْقَادِرَةَ أَنْ تُخَلِّصَ نُفُوسَكُمْ.22وَلَكِنْ كُونُوا عَامِلِينَ بِالْكَلِمَةِ لاَ سَامِعِينَ فَقَطْ، خَادِعِينَ نُفُوسَكُمْ.23لأَنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ سَامِعاً لِلْكَلِمَةِ وَلَيْسَ عَامِلاً فَذَاكَ يُشْبِهُ رَجُلاً نَاظِراً وَجْهَ خِلْقَتِهِ فِي مِرْآةٍ،24فَإِنَّهُ نَظَرَ ذَاتَهُ وَمَضَى وَلِلْوَقْتِ نَسِيَ مَا هُوَ.25وَلَكِنْ مَنِ اطَّلَعَ عَلَى النَّامُوسِ الْكَامِلِ، نَامُوسِ الْحُرِّيَّةِ، وَثَبَتَ وَصَارَ لَيْسَ سَامِعاً نَاسِياً بَلْ عَامِلاً بِالْكَلِمَةِ، فَهَذَا يَكُونُ مَغْبُوطاً فِي عَمَلِهِ.26إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ فِيكُمْ يَظُنُّ أَنَّهُ دَيِّنٌ وَهُوَ لَيْسَ يُلْجِمُ لِسَانَهُ بَلْ يَخْدَعُ قَلْبَهُ، فَدِيَانَةُ هَذَا بَاطِلَةٌ.27اَلدِّيَانَةُ الطَّاهِرَةُ النَّقِيَّةُ عِنْدَ اللهِ الآبِ هِيَ هَذِهِ: افْتِقَادُ الْيَتَامَى وَالأَرَامِلِ فِي ضِيقَتِهِمْ وَحِفْظُ الإِنْسَانِ نَفْسَهُ بِلاَ دَنَسٍ مِنَ الْعَالَمِ.