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| [1]Yaqob the servant of Alaha and of our Lord Ieshu The Messiah to twelve the tribes which are scattered among the nations peace |
[1]JAMES, a servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; to the twelve tribes dispersed among the Gentiles; greeting [peace]. |
| [2]Every joy let there be to you my brethren when you will enter temptations various and many |
[2]Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials. |
| [3]Know you for that the trial of faith imparts to you patience |
[3]For ye know, that the trial of [your] faith, maketh you possess patience. |
| [4]Itself but patience shall be for it a work complete that you would be perfected and complete and anything not you would be lacking |
[4]And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing. |
| [5]If anyone but of you is lacking of wisdom let him ask from Alaha Who gives to all simply and not reproaches and it will be given to him |
[5]And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask [it] of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will be given him. |
| [6]Let him ask but in faith while not wavering he for who wavers is like the waves of the sea which troubles them the wind |
[6]But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth. |
| [7]And not let think that son of man to receive anything from the Lord |
[7]And let not that man expect to receive any thing of the Lord, |
| [8]Who ever wavers in his mind and is troubled in all his ways |
[8]who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways. |
| [9]Let boast but the brother poor in his exaltation |
[9]And let the depressed brother rejoice, in his elevation; |
| [10]And the rich man in his humiliation because that as a blossom of the grass in this way passes away |
[10]and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passeth away. |
| [11]Rises for the sun in its heat and shrivels it the grass and the blossom falls and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed in this way also the rich man fades in his ways |
[11]For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways. |
| [12]His blessing to the man who endures temptation for when he is tested he will receive a crown of life which promised Alaha to those who love Him |
[12]Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him. |
| [13]Not should say a man when he is tempted "from Alaha am tempted I Alaha for not is acquainted with evil and he man not tempts |
[13]Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted with evils, nor doth he tempt any man. |
| [14]But each man from his desire is tempted and he lusts and he is seduced |
[14]But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusteth, and is drawn away. |
| [15]And this desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin sin but when it has developed gives birth to death |
[15]And this [his] lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death. |
| [16]Not do be led astray my brothers beloved |
[16]Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
| [17]Every gift good and perfect from above descends from The Father of light Him is not with Whom change any neither a shadow of variation |
[17]Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change. |
| [18]He was willing and He gave birth to us by the word of the truth that we would be the first fruits of His creation |
[18]He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures. |
| [19]And you my brethren beloved every person of you shall be quick to hear and slow to speak and slow to be angry |
[19]And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow to wrath: |
| [20]The rage for of man the righteousness of Alaha not performs |
[20]for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. |
| [21]Because of this put away from you all abomination and the multitude of evils and in humility accept the word which is planted in our nature which is able to save these your souls |
[21]Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls. |
| [22]Be but a doer of the word and not a hearer only and not deceive yourselves |
[22]But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves. |
| [23]If a man for shall be a hearer of the word and not its doer this one is like him who sees his face in a mirror |
[23]For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror: |
| [24]Sees for himself and passes by and forgets how he was |
[24]for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was. |
| [25]Everyone but who gazes into The Law perfect of liberty and continues in it not is a hearer who heard what is forgotten but a doer of the works and this one blessed shall be in his work |
[25]But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work. |
| [26]And if a man thinks that he serves to Alaha and not holds his tongue but deceives it the heart of this one worthless is his service |
[26]And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain. |
| [27]Ministry for pure and holy before Alaha The Father this is to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep a man his soul from the world without defilement |
[27]For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world. |