Iacobi 1
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1Jacobus, Dei et Domini nostri Jesu Christi servus, duodecim tribubus, quæ sunt in dispersione, salutem.
1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2Omne gaudium existimate fratres mei, cum in tentationes varias incideritis:
2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3scientes quod probatio fidei vestræ patientiam operatur.
3Knowing this , that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4Patientia autem opus perfectum habet: ut sitis perfecti et integri in nullo deficientes.
4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5Si quis autem vestrum indiget sapientia, postulet a Deo, qui dat omnibus affluenter, et non improperat: et dabitur ei.
5If 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.
6Postulet autem in fide nihil hæsitans: qui enim hæsitat, similis est fluctui maris, qui a vento movetur et circumfertur:
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7non ergo æstimet homo ille quod accipiat aliquid a Domino.
7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8Vir duplex animo inconstans est in omnibus viis suis.
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9Glorietur autem frater humilis in exaltatione sua:
9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10dives autem in humilitate sua, quoniam sicut flos fœni transibit;
10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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.
11For 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.
12Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem: quoniam cum probatus fuerit, accipiet coronam vitæ, quam repromisit Deus diligentibus se.
12Blessed 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.
13Nemo cum tentatur, dicat quoniam a Deo tentatur: Deus enim intentator malorum est: ipse autem neminem tentat.
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14Unusquisque vero tentatur a concupiscentia sua abstractus, et illectus.
14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15Deinde concupiscentia cum conceperit, parit peccatum: peccatum vero cum consummatum fuerit, generat mortem.
15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16Nolite itaque errare, fratres mei dilectissimi.
16Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17Omne datum optimum, et omne donum perfectum desursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio, nec vicissitudinis obumbratio.
17Every 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.
18Voluntarie enim genuit nos verbo veritatis, ut simus initium aliquod creaturæ ejus.
18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19Scitis, fratres mei dilectissimi. Sit autem omnis homo velox ad audiendum: tardus autem ad loquendum, et tardus ad iram.
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20Ira enim viri justitiam Dei non operatur.
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21Propter quod abjicientes omnem immunditiam, et abundantiam malitiæ, in mansuetudine suscipite insitum verbum, quod potest salvare animas vestras.
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22Estote autem factores verbi, et non auditores tantum: fallentes vosmetipsos.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23Quia si quis auditor est verbi, et non factor, hic comparabitur viro consideranti vultum nativitatis suæ in speculo:
23For 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:
24consideravit enim se, et abiit, et statim oblitus est qualis fuerit.
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25Qui autem perspexerit in legem perfectam libertatis, et permanserit in ea, non auditor obliviosus factus, sed factor operis: hic beatus in facto suo erit.
25But 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.
26Si quis autem putat se religiosum esse, non refrenans linguam suam, sed seducens cor suum, hujus vana est religio.
26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27Religio munda et immaculata apud Deum et Patrem, hæc est: visitare pupillos et viduas in tribulatione eorum, et immaculatum se custodire ab hoc sæculo.
27Pure 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.
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