James 1
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1Jacobus, Dei et Domini nostri Jesu Christi servus, duodecim tribubus, quæ sunt in dispersione, salutem.
2My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;
2Omne gaudium existimate fratres mei, cum in tentationes varias incideritis:
3Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
3scientes quod probatio fidei vestræ patientiam operatur.
4And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.
4Patientia autem opus perfectum habet: ut sitis perfecti et integri in nullo deficientes.
5But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
5Si quis autem vestrum indiget sapientia, postulet a Deo, qui dat omnibus affluenter, et non improperat: et dabitur ei.
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.
6Postulet autem in fide nihil hæsitans: qui enim hæsitat, similis est fluctui maris, qui a vento movetur et circumfertur:
7Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
7non ergo æstimet homo ille quod accipiat aliquid a Domino.
8A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
8Vir duplex animo inconstans est in omnibus viis suis.
9But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:
9Glorietur autem frater humilis in exaltatione sua:
10And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.
10dives autem in humilitate sua, quoniam sicut flos fœni transibit;
11For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
11exortus est enim sol cum ardore, et arefecit fœnum, et flos ejus decidit, et decor vultus ejus deperiit: ita et dives in itineribus suis marcescet.
12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.
12Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem: quoniam cum probatus fuerit, accipiet coronam vitæ, quam repromisit Deus diligentibus se.
13Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.
13Nemo cum tentatur, dicat quoniam a Deo tentatur: Deus enim intentator malorum est: ipse autem neminem tentat.
14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
14Unusquisque vero tentatur a concupiscentia sua abstractus, et illectus.
15Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
15Deinde concupiscentia cum conceperit, parit peccatum: peccatum vero cum consummatum fuerit, generat mortem.
16Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
16Nolite itaque errare, fratres mei dilectissimi.
17Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.
17Omne datum optimum, et omne donum perfectum desursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio, nec vicissitudinis obumbratio.
18For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.
18Voluntarie enim genuit nos verbo veritatis, ut simus initium aliquod creaturæ ejus.
19You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.
19Scitis, fratres mei dilectissimi. Sit autem omnis homo velox ad audiendum: tardus autem ad loquendum, et tardus ad iram.
20For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
20Ira enim viri justitiam Dei non operatur.
21Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
21Propter quod abjicientes omnem immunditiam, et abundantiam malitiæ, in mansuetudine suscipite insitum verbum, quod potest salvare animas vestras.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
22Estote autem factores verbi, et non auditores tantum: fallentes vosmetipsos.
23For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.
23Quia si quis auditor est verbi, et non factor, hic comparabitur viro consideranti vultum nativitatis suæ in speculo:
24For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.
24consideravit enim se, et abiit, et statim oblitus est qualis fuerit.
25But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.
25Qui autem perspexerit in legem perfectam libertatis, et permanserit in ea, non auditor obliviosus factus, sed factor operis: hic beatus in facto suo erit.
26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
26Si quis autem putat se religiosum esse, non refrenans linguam suam, sed seducens cor suum, hujus vana est religio.
27Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one’s self unspotted from this world.
27Religio munda et immaculata apud Deum et Patrem, hæc est: visitare pupillos et viduas in tribulatione eorum, et immaculatum se custodire ab hoc sæculo.
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