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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, —unto the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, Wishes joy.
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。
All Joy, account it, my brethren, whensoever ye fall in with, manifold, temptations, —
3 其は汝等の信仰の試は、忍耐を生ずるを知ればなり。
Taking note, that, the proving of your faith, worketh out 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, your endurance, have, mature work, that ye may be mature and complete, in nothing, coming short.
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 of you is sinning short of wisdom, let him be asking of God, Who giveth unto all freely and upbraideth not, and it shall 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 be asking in faith, nothing, doubting, for, he that doubteth, is like a wave of the sea, wind-driven and storm-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 two-souled man, 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、
But boasting be the lowly brother in his uplifting;
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。
Whereas the rich, in his being brought low, —because, as a flower of 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 hath sprung up, with it scorching heat, and hath withered the grass, and, the flower thereof, hath fallen out, and, the beauty of the face thereof, hath perished, —so, also the rich, in his goings, shall languish.
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。
Happy the man who endureth temptation! Because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of life—which he hath promised unto 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, while tempted, be saying—From God, am I tempted, —for, God, cannot be tempted by things evil, and, himself, 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 coveting, he is drawn out 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, the coveting, having conceived, giveth birth to sin, and, the sin, when full-grown, bringeth forth death.
16 然れば我至愛なる兄弟等よ、過つ事勿れ、
Be not deceived, my brethren beloved: —
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 giving, and every perfect gift, is, from above, coming down from the Father of lights—with whom is no alternation, nor shadow cast, by 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。
Because he was so minded, he hath brought us forth with a word of truth, to the end we should be a sort of firstfruit 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。
Ye know, my brethren beloved, —but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
20 其は人の怒は神の義を為さざればなり。
For, man’s anger, worketh not, God’s righteousness.
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, putting away all filthiness and overflow of baseness, in meekness, welcome ye the word fitted for inward growth, 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。
Become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only—reasoning yourselves astray;
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。
Because, if any is, a word-hearer, and not a doer, the same, is like unto a man observing his natural face in a mirror, —
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 observed himself, and is gone away, and, straightway, it hath escaped him, —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 that hath obtained a nearer view into the perfect law of liberty, and hath taken up his abode by it, becoming—not a forgetful hearer, but a work doer, the same, happy in his doing, shall be.
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 thinketh he is observant of religion, not curbing his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this one’s, religious observance 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。
Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this—to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.
