雅各书(James)
1:19 我亲爱的弟兄们,这是你们所知道的。但你们各人要快快的听,慢慢的说,慢慢的动怒。
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 因为人的怒气,并不成就神的义。
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
1:21 所以你们要脱去一切的污秽,和盈余的邪恶,存温柔的心领受那所栽种的道,就是能救你们灵魂的道。
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1:22 只是你们要行道,不要单单听道,自己欺哄自己。
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1:23 因为听道而不行道的,就像人对着镜子看自己本来的面目。
For 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:
1:24 看见,走后,随即忘了他的相貌如何。
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 惟有那详细察看那全备使人自由之律法的,并且时常如此,这人既不是听了就忘,乃是实在行出来,就在他所行的事上必然得福。
But 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.
1:26 若有人自以为虔诚,却不勒住他的舌头,反欺哄自己的心,这人的虔诚是虚的。
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
1:27 在神我们的父面前,那清洁没有玷污的虔诚,就是看雇在患难中的孤儿寡妇,并且保守自己不沾染世俗。
Pure 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.
3:1 我的弟兄们,不要多人作师父,因为晓得我们要受更重的判断。
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 原来我们在许多事上都有过失。若有人在话语上没有过失,他就是完全人,也能勒住自己的全身。
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3:3 我们若把嚼环放在马嘴里,叫他顺服,就能调动他的全身。
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:4 看哪,船只虽然甚大,又被大风催逼,只用小小的舵,就随着掌舵的意思转动。
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
3:5 这样,舌头在百体里也是最小的,却能说大话。看哪,最小的火能点着最大的树林。
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:6 舌头就是火,在我们百体中,舌头是个罪恶的世界,能污秽全身,也能把生命的轮子点起来,并且是从地狱里点着的。
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
3:7 各类的走兽,飞禽,昆虫,水族,本来都可以制伏,也已经被人制伏了。
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
3:8 惟独舌头没有人能制伏,是不止息的恶物,满了害死人的毒气。
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
3:9 我们用舌头颂赞那为主为父的,又用舌头咒诅那照着神形像被造的人。
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
3:10 颂赞和咒诅从一个口里出来,我的弟兄们,这是不应当的。
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:11 泉源从一个眼里能发出甜苦两样的水吗。
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
3:12 我的弟兄们,无花果树能生橄榄吗,葡萄树能结无花果吗。咸水里也不能发出甜水来。
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
3:13 你们中间有智慧有见识的呢。他就当在智慧的温柔上,显出他的善行来。
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
3:14 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 这样的智慧,不是从上头来的,乃是属地的,属情欲的,属鬼魔的。
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
3:16 在何处有嫉妒纷争,就在何处有扰乱,和各样的坏事。
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
3:17 惟独从上头来的智慧,先是清洁,后是和平,温良柔顺,满有怜悯,多结善果,没有偏见,没有假冒。
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
3:18 并且使人和平的,是用和平所栽种的义果。
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
马太福音(Matthew)
15:10 耶稣就叫了众人来,对他们说,你们要听,也要明白。
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
15:11 入口的不能污秽人,出口的乃能污秽人。
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
15:12 当时,门徒进前来对他说,法利赛人听见这话,不服,你知道吗。(不服原文作跌倒)
Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
15:13 耶稣回答说,凡栽种的物,若不是我父栽种的,必要拔出来。
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
15:14 任凭他们吧。他们是瞎眼领路的。若是瞎子领瞎子,两个人都要掉在坑里。
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
15:15 彼得对耶稣说,请将这比喻讲给我们听。
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
15:16 耶稣说,你们到如今还不明白吗。
And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
15:17 岂不知凡入口的,是运到肚子里,又落在茅厕里吗。
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
15:18 惟独出口的,是从心里发出来的,这才污秽人。
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
15:19 因为从心里发出来的,有恶念,凶杀,奸淫,苟合,偷盗,妄证,谤讟。
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
15:20 这都是污秽人的。至于不洗手吃饭,那却不污秽人。
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.