雅各書 3
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1我的弟兄們，不要多人作師傅，因為曉得我們要受更重的判斷。
1Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the greater judgment.
2原來我們在許多事上都有過失；若有人在話語上沒有過失，他就是完全人，也能勒住自己的全身。
2For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.
3我們若把嚼環放在馬嘴裏，叫牠順服，就能調動牠的全身。
3For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
4看哪，船隻雖然甚大，又被大風催逼，只用小小的舵，就隨着掌舵的意思轉動。
4Behold also ships, whereas they are great, and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth.
5這樣，舌頭在百體裏也是最小的，卻能說大話。 看哪，最小的火能點着最大的樹林。
5Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.
6舌頭就是火，在我們百體中，舌頭是個罪惡的世界，能污穢全身，也能把生命的輪子點起來，並且是從地獄裏點着的。
6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.
7各類的走獸、飛禽、昆蟲、水族，本來都可以制伏，也已經被人制伏了；
7For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man:
8惟獨舌頭沒有人能制伏，是不止息的惡物，滿了害死人的毒氣。
8But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.
9我們用舌頭頌讚那為主、為父的，又用舌頭咒詛那照着上帝形像被造的人。
9By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
10頌讚和咒詛從一個口裏出來！我的弟兄們，這是不應當的！
10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11泉源從一個眼裏能發出甜苦兩樣的水嗎？
11Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
12我的弟兄們，無花果樹能生橄欖嗎？葡萄樹能結無花果嗎？鹹水裏也不能發出甜水來。
12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.
13你們中間誰是有智慧有見識的呢？他就當在智慧的溫柔上顯出他的善行來。
13Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
14你們心裏若懷着苦毒的嫉妒和紛爭，就不可自誇，也不可說謊話抵擋真道。
14But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.
15這樣的智慧不是從上頭來的，乃是屬地的，屬情慾的，屬鬼魔的。
15For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.
16在何處有嫉妒、紛爭，就在何處有擾亂和各樣的壞事。
16For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.
17惟獨從上頭來的智慧，先是清潔，後是和平，溫良柔順，滿有憐憫，多結善果，沒有偏見，沒有假冒。
17But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.
18並且使人和平的，是用和平所栽種的義果。
18And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.
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