Tiago 1

He Mihi

1 Nā Hēmi, nā te pononga a te Atua, a te Ariki hoki, a Īhu Karaiti,

Ki ngā hapū kotahi tekau mā rua e noho marara ana:

Tēnā koutou.

Te Whakapono me te Mātauranga

2 Kīia iho, e ōku tēina, he mea hari nui ina taka koutou ki ngā whakamātautauranga maha; 3 e mātau ana hoki koutou, ko te whakamātautauranga o tō koutou whakapono hei mahi i te manawanui. 4 Nā, kia puta rawa te mahi a te manawanui, kia tino tika ai koutou, kia toitū ai, tē hapa i tētahi mea. 5 Ki te hapa tētahi o koutou i te mātauranga, me īnoi ia ki te Atua, e hōmai nui nei ki te katoa, kāhore hoki āna tāwai mai; ā, ka hōmai ki a ia. 6 Otirā, me īnoi whakapono ia, kaua e ruarua. Ko te tangata ruarua hoki, tōna rite kei te ngaru o te moana, e pūhia ana e te hau, e ākina ana. 7 Kaua hoki taua tangata e mea, e whiwhi ia ki tētahi mea i te Ariki. 8 E kore te tangata ngākau rua e ū i āna hanga katoa.

Te Rawakore me te Whai Taonga

9 Ko te teina iti, kia whakamanamana ia i te mea ka whakanekehia ake ia, 10 me te tangata taonga anō, i te mea ka whakaititia. Ka memeha atu hoki ia, ānō he puāwai tarutaru. 11 Ko te putanga mai hoki o te rā me te hau wera anō, nā, kua maroke te tarutaru, kua ngahoro tōna puāwai, ā, ngaro iho te ātanga o tōna āhua. Ka pērā anō te tangata taonga, ka memeha atu i ōna hāereerenga.

Whakamātautau me Whakawai

12 Ka hari te tangata e ū ake ana ki te whakamātautauranga. Nō te mea hoki ka oti ia te whakamātautau, ka whiwhi ia ki te karauna o te ora, kua whakaaria mai nei e te Ariki mō te hunga e aroha ana ki a ia.

13 Kaua tētahi e mea ina whakamātautauria, "E whakamātautauria ana ahau e te Atua." E kore hoki te Atua e taea te whakamātautau e te kino, e kore anō hoki ia e whakamātautau i tētahi. 14 Engari he mea whakamātautau te tangata, i a ia e kūmea ana, e poaina ana e tōna hiahia ake anō. 15 Nā, i te hapūtanga o te hiahia, ka whānau ko te hara; ā, i te otinga o te hara, ka whānau ko te mate.

16 Kei whakapōhēhētia koutou, e ōku tēina aroha. 17 Nō runga ngā hōmaitanga papai katoa, ngā mea katoa e tino tika ana, he mea heke iho nō te Matua o ngā whakamārama, kāhore nei ōna putanga kētanga, kāhore hoki he ātārangi o te tahuri. 18 Nā tōna hiahia ake anō tātou whānau ai, he meatanga nā te kupu o te pono, kia meinga ai tātou me he mātāmua mō āna mea i hanga ai.

Whakarongo ka Mahi ai

19 Kei te mōhio koutou ki tēnei, e ōku hoa aroha, kia hohoro ngā tāngata katoa ki te whakarongo, kia pūhoi ki te kōrero, kia pūhoi ki te riri. 20 E kore hoki tā te Atua tika e mahia e tō te tangata riri. 21 Heoi, me whakarere katoa atu ngā tikanga poke, me te hara e hua tonu nei, me tahuri mārire ki te kupu kua oti te whakatō iho; e taea hoki e tēnei te whakaora ō koutou wairua.

22 Hei kaimahi anō koutou i te kupu, kaua hei kaiwhakarongo anake, kei tinihangatia koutou e koutou anō. 23 Ki te mea hoki he kaiwhakarongo tētahi i te kupu, ehara nei i te kaimahi, he rite ia ki te tangata e mātakitaki ana ki tōna kanohi māori i roto i te whakaata: 24 i tōna mātakitakinga hoki i a ia anō, haere ana, wareware tonu ake he āhua pēhea rānei tōna. 25 Tēnā ko te tangata e āta titiro iho ana ki te ture tino tika, ki te mea herekore, ā, ka ū tonu, he kaiwhakarongo anō ia e kore e wareware, engari, e mahi ana i te mahi, e hari anō tēnei i tāna mahi.

26 Ki te mea he āhua karakia tō tētahi i roto i a koutou, ki te kore e parairetia e ia tōna arero, he tinihanga hoki tāna ki tōna ngākau, he maumau karakia tāna. 27 Ko te karakia pono, ko te mea poke kore ki te aroaro o te Atua Matua, ko ia tēnei: Ko te tirotiro i ngā pani i ngā pouaru i ō rātou mate, ko te tiaki i a ia ake kei poke i te ao.

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.