1 神和主耶稣基督的仆人雅各， 向散居各地的十二支派问安。
2 我的弟兄们， 你们遭遇各种试炼的时候， 都要看为喜乐；
3 因为知道你们的信心经过考验， 就产生忍耐。
4 但忍耐要坚持到底（"坚持到底"原文作"有完全的功效"）， 使你们可以完全， 毫无缺乏。
5 你们中间若有人缺少智慧， 就当向那厚赐众人， 而且不斥责人的 神祈求， 他就必得着。
6 可是， 他应该凭着信心祈求， 不要有疑惑； 因为疑惑的人， 就像被风吹荡翻腾的海浪。
7 那样的人， 不要想从主得到什么；
8 因为三心两意的人， 在他的一切道路上， 都摇摆不定。
9 卑微的弟兄应当以高升为荣；
10 富足的也不应该以降卑为辱； 因为他如同草上的花， 必要过去。
11 太阳一出， 热风一吹， 草必枯干， 花必凋谢， 它的美容就消失了； 富足的人也必在他的奔波经营中这样衰落。
12 能忍受试炼的人， 是有福的； 因为他经过考验之后， 必得着生命的冠冕， 这冠冕是主应许给爱他的人的。
13 人被试探， 不可说"我被 神试探"； 因为 神不能被恶试探， 他也不试探任何人。
14 每一个人受试探， 都是被自己的私欲所勾引诱惑的。
15 私欲怀了胎， 就生出罪； 罪长成了， 就产生死亡。
16 我亲爱的弟兄们， 不要看错了。
17 各样美好的赏赐， 各样完备的恩赐， 都是从上面、从众光之父降下来的， 他本身并没有改变， 也没有转动的影子。
18 他凭着自己的旨意， 借着真理的道生了我们， 使我们作他所造的万物中初熟的果子。
19 我亲爱的弟兄们， 你们要知道， 人人都应该快快地听， 慢慢地说， 慢一点动怒；
20 因为人的忿怒并不能成全 神的义。
21 所以你们应当摆脱一切污秽和所有的邪恶， 以温柔的心领受 神栽种的道； 这道能救你们的灵魂。
22 你们应该作行道的人， 不要单作听道的人， 自己欺骗自己；
23 因为人若只作听道的人， 不作行道的人， 他就像一个人对着镜子看自己本来的面貌，
24 看过走开以后， 马上就忘记自己的样子。
25 唯有详细察看那使人自由的全备的律法， 并且时常遵守的人， 他不是听了就忘记， 而是实行出来， 就必因自己所作的蒙福。
26 如果有人自以为虔诚， 却不约束他的舌头， 反而自己欺骗自己， 这人的虔诚是没有用的。
27 在父 神看来， 纯洁无玷污的虔诚， 就是照顾患难中的孤儿寡妇， 并且保守自己不被世俗所污染。
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.
2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. 16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.