雅各书

第二章

不可重富轻贫
1 我的弟兄们，你们既然对我们荣耀的主耶稣基督有信心，就不应该凭外貌待人。
2 如果有一个手戴金戒指、身穿华丽衣服的人，进入你们的会堂；又有一个衣衫褴褛的穷人，也进去了。
3 你们就看重那穿华丽衣服的人，说：“请坐在这好位上。”又对那个穷人说：“你站在那里。”或说：“坐在我的脚凳下边。”
4 这不是你们对人有歧视，成了心怀恶意的审判官吗？
5 我亲爱的弟兄们，请听：　神不是拣选了在世上被认为贫穷的人吗？这些人却在信心上富足，而且是承受　神的国的人。这国是　神应许赐给爱他的人的。
6 然而你们却侮辱穷人。其实，那些欺压你们，拉你们上法庭的，不就是富足的人吗？
7 难道不是他们亵渎那召你们的尊名吗？（或译：“难道不是他们毁谤你们蒙召的美名吗？”）
8 你们若照着圣经所说“要爱人如己”这话，去完成这至尊的律法，你们就作对了。
9 如果你们凭外貌待人，就是犯罪，律法就要裁定你们是犯法的。
10 因为凡是遵守全部律法的，只要在一条上失足，就违犯所有的了。
11 就像那说“不可奸淫”的，也说“不可杀人”；你纵然不奸淫，却杀人，还是犯法的。
12 你们既然按着使人自由的律法受审判，就应照着这律法说话行事。
13 因为对不行怜悯的人，审判他们的时候就没有怜悯；怜悯胜过审判。

信心没有行为是死的
14 我的弟兄们，人若说他有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
15 如果有弟兄或姊妹缺衣少食，
16 而你们中间有人对他们说：“平平安安地去吧！愿你们穿得暖，吃得饱。”却不给他们身体所需用的，那有什么用处呢？
17 照样，如果只有信心，没有行为，这信心就是死的。
18 也许有人要说，你有信心，我有行为；请把你没有行为的信心指给我看，我就借着我的行为，把我的信心指给你看。
19 你信　神只有一位，你信的不错；就连鬼魔也信，却是战兢。
20 愚昧的人哪，你愿意知道没有行为的信心是没有用的吗？
21 我们的祖先亚伯拉罕，把他的儿子以撒献在祭坛上，不是因行为称义吗？
22 你看，他的信心与行为是一致的，信心就因着行为得到完全了；
23 这正应验了经上所说的：“亚伯拉罕信　神，这就算为他的义。”他也被称为　神的朋友。
24 可见人称义是因着行为，不仅是因着信心。
25 照样，妓女喇合接待了探子，又从另一条路把他们送走，不也是因行为称义吗？
26 身体没有灵魂是死的，照样，信心没有行为也是死的。

NIV

1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism.
2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to the poor man, "You stand there" or "Sit on the floor by my feet,"
4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
6 But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
7 Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
8 If you really keep the royal law found in ????ure, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.
9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
15 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
16 If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?
17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder.
20 You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?
21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
23 And the ????ure was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.
24 You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?
26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.