1:1 作神和主耶稣基督仆人的雅各，请散住十二个支派之人的安。
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1:2 我的弟兄们，你们落在百般的试炼中，都要以为大喜乐。
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
1:3 因为知道你们的信心经过试验就生忍耐。
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
1:4 但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全完备，毫无缺欠。
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5 你们中间若有缺少智慧的，应当求那厚赐与众人，也不斥责人的神，主就必赐给他。
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.
1:6 只要凭着信心求，一点不疑惑。因为那疑惑的人，就像海中的波浪，被风吹动翻腾。
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.
1:7 这样的人，不要想从主那里得什么。
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
1:8 心怀二意的人，在他一切所行的路上，都没有定见。
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1:9 卑微的弟兄升高，就该喜乐。
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 富足的降卑，也该如此。因为他必要过去，如同草上的花一样。
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 太阳出来，热风刮起，草就枯乾，花也凋谢，美容就消没了。那富足的人，在他所行的事上，也要这样衰残。
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.
1:12 忍受试探的人是有福的。因为他经过试验以后，必得生命的冠冕，这是主应许给那些爱他之人的。
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.
1:13 人被试探，不可说，我是被神试探。因为神不能被恶试探，他也不试探人。
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:
1:14 但各人被试探，乃是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的。
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
1:15 私欲既怀了胎，就生出罪来。罪既长成，就生出死来。
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1:16 我亲爱的弟兄们，不要看错了。
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
1:17 各样美善的恩赐，和各样全备的赏赐，都是从上头来的。从众光之父那里降下来的。在他并没有改变，也没有转动的影儿。
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.
1:18 他按自己的旨意，用真道生了我们，叫我们在他所造的万物中，好像初熟的果子。
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
1:19 我亲爱的弟兄们，这是你们所知道的。但你们各人要快快的听，慢慢的说，慢慢的动怒。
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 因为人的怒气，并不成就神的义。
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
1:21 所以你们要脱去一切的污秽，和盈馀的邪恶，存温柔的心领受那所栽种的道，就是能救你们灵魂的道。
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1:22 只是你们要行道，不要单单听道，自己欺哄自己。
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1:23 因为听道而不行道的，就像人对着镜子看自己本来的面目。
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:
1:24 看见，走后，随即忘了他的相貌如何。
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 惟有那详细察看那全备使人自由之律法的，并且时常如此，这人既不是听了就忘，乃是实在行出来，就在他所行的事上必然得福。
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.
1:26 若有人自以为虔诚，却不勒住他的舌头，反欺哄自己的心，这人的虔诚是虚的。
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.
1:27 在神我们的父面前，那清洁没有玷污的虔诚，就是看雇在患难中的孤儿寡妇，并且保守自己不沾染世俗。
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.