تحية | |
| 1 يَعْقُوبُ، عَبْدُ اللهِ وَالرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ، يُهْدِي السَّلاَمَ إِلَى الاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ سِبْطًا الَّذِينَ فِي الشَّتَاتِ. | 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. |
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نصرة وسط التجارب | |
| 2 اِحْسِبُوهُ كُلَّ فَرَحٍ يَا إِخْوَتِي حِينَمَا تَقَعُونَ فِي تَجَارِبَ مُتَنَوِّعَةٍ، | 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; |
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| 3 عَالِمِينَ أَنَّ امْتِحَانَ إِيمَانِكُمْ يُنْشِئُ صَبْرًا. | 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. |
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| 4 وَأَمَّا الصَّبْرُ فَلْيَكُنْ لَهُ عَمَلٌ تَامٌّ، لِكَيْ تَكُونُوا تَامِّينَ وَكَامِلِينَ غَيْرَ نَاقِصِينَ فِي شَيْءٍ. | 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. |
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| 5 وَإِنَّمَا إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُكُمْ تُعْوِزُهُ حِكْمَةٌ، فَلْيَطْلُبْ مِنَ اللهِ الَّذِي يُعْطِي الْجَمِيعَ بِسَخَاءٍ وَلاَ يُعَيِّرُ، فَسَيُعْطَى لَهُ. | 5 If 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. |
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| 6 وَلكِنْ لِيَطْلُبْ بِإِيمَانٍ غَيْرَ مُرْتَابٍ الْبَتَّةَ، لأَنَّ الْمُرْتَابَ يُشْبِهُ مَوْجًا مِنَ الْبَحْرِ تَخْبِطُهُ الرِّيحُ وَتَدْفَعُهُ. | 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. |
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| 7 فَلاَ يَظُنَّ ذلِكَ الإِنْسَانُ أَنَّهُ يَنَالُ شَيْئًا مِنْ عِنْدِ الرَّبِّ. | 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. |
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| 8 رَجُلٌ ذُو رَأْيَيْنِ هُوَ مُتَقَلْقِلٌ فِي جَمِيعِ طُرُقِهِ. | 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. |
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الغنى والفقر | |
| 9 وَلْيَفْتَخِرِ الأَخُ الْمُتَّضِعُ بِارْتِفَاعِهِ، | 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: |
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| 10 وَأَمَّا الْغَنِيُّ فَبِاتِّضَاعِهِ، لأَنَّهُ كَزَهْرِ الْعُشْبِ يَزُولُ. | 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. |
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| 11 لأَنَّ الشَّمْسَ أَشْرَقَتْ بِالْحَرِّ، فَيَبَّسَتِ الْعُشْبَ، فَسَقَطَ زَهْرُهُ وَفَنِيَ جَمَالُ مَنْظَرِهِ. هكَذَا يَذْبُلُ الْغَنِيُّ أَيْضًا فِي طُرُقِهِ. | 11 For 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. |
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| 12 طُوبَى لِلرَّجُلِ الَّذِي يَحْتَمِلُ التَّجْرِبَةَ، لأَنَّهُ إِذَا تَزَكَّى يَنَالُ «إِكْلِيلَ الْحَيَاةِ» الَّذِي وَعَدَ بِهِ الرَّبُّ لِلَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَهُ. | 12 Blessed 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. |
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الله لا يجرب أحدًا | |
| 13 لاَ يَقُلْ أَحَدٌ إِذَا جُرِّبَ: «إِنِّي أُجَرَّبُ مِنْ قِبَلِ اللهِ»، لأَنَّ اللهَ غَيْرُ مُجَرَّبٍ بِالشُّرُورِ، وَهُوَ لاَ يُجَرِّبُ أَحَدًا. | 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: |
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| 14 وَلكِنَّ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ يُجَرَّبُ إِذَا انْجَذَبَ وَانْخَدَعَ مِنْ شَهْوَتِهِ. | 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. |
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| 15 ثُمَّ الشَّهْوَةُ إِذَا حَبِلَتْ تَلِدُ خَطِيَّةً، وَالْخَطِيَّةُ إِذَا كَمَلَتْ تُنْتِجُ مَوْتًا. | 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. |
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| 16 لاَ تَضِلُّوا يَا إِخْوَتِي الأَحِبَّاءَ. | 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
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| 17 كُلُّ عَطِيَّةٍ صَالِحَةٍ وَكُلُّ مَوْهِبَةٍ تَامَّةٍ هِيَ مِنْ فَوْقُ، نَازِلَةٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَبِي الأَنْوَارِ، الَّذِي لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ تَغْيِيرٌ وَلاَ ظِلُّ دَوَرَانٍ. | 17 Every 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. |
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| 18 شَاءَ فَوَلَدَنَا بِكَلِمَةِ الْحَقِّ لِكَيْ نَكُونَ بَاكُورَةً مِنْ خَلاَئِقِهِ. | 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. |
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| 19 إِذًا يَا إِخْوَتِي الأَحِبَّاءَ، لِيَكُنْ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مُسْرِعًا فِي الاسْتِمَاعِ، مُبْطِئًا فِي التَّكَلُّمِ، مُبْطِئًا فِي الْغَضَبِ، | 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: |
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| 20 لأَنَّ غَضَبَ الإِنْسَانِ لاَ يَصْنَعُ بِرَّ اللهِ. | 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. |
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السمع والعمل | |
| 21 لِذلِكَ اطْرَحُوا كُلَّ نَجَاسَةٍ وَكَثْرَةَ شَرّ، فَاقْبَلُوا بِوَدَاعَةٍ الْكَلِمَةَ الْمَغْرُوسَةَ الْقَادِرَةَ أَنْ تُخَلِّصَ نُفُوسَكُمْ. | 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. |
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| 22 وَلكِنْ كُونُوا عَامِلِينَ بِالْكَلِمَةِ، لاَ سَامِعِينَ فَقَطْ خَادِعِينَ نُفُوسَكُمْ. | 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. |
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| 23 لأَنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ سَامِعًا لِلْكَلِمَةِ وَلَيْسَ عَامِلاً، فَذَاكَ يُشْبِهُ رَجُلاً نَاظِرًا وَجْهَ خِلْقَتِهِ فِي مِرْآةٍ، | 23 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: |
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| 24 فَإِنَّهُ نَظَرَ ذَاتَهُ وَمَضَى، وَلِلْوَقْتِ نَسِيَ مَا هُوَ. | 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. |
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| 25 وَلكِنْ مَنِ اطَّلَعَ عَلَى النَّامُوسِ الْكَامِلِ نَامُوسِ الْحُرِّيَّةِ وَثَبَتَ، وَصَارَ لَيْسَ سَامِعًا نَاسِيًا بَلْ عَامِلاً بِالْكَلِمَةِ، فَهذَا يَكُونُ مَغْبُوطًا فِي عَمَلِهِ. | 25 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. |
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| 26 إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ فِيكُمْ يَظُنُّ أَنَّهُ دَيِّنٌ، وَهُوَ لَيْسَ يُلْجِمُ لِسَانَهُ، بَلْ يَخْدَعُ قَلْبَهُ، فَدِيَانَةُ هذَا بَاطِلَةٌ. | 26 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. |
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| 27 اَلدِّيَانَةُ الطَّاهِرَةُ النَّقِيَّةُ عِنْدَ اللهِ الآبِ هِيَ هذِهِ: افْتِقَادُ الْيَتَامَى وَالأَرَامِلِ فِي ضِيقَتِهِمْ، وَحِفْظُ الإِنْسَانِ نَفْسَهُ بِلاَ دَنَسٍ مِنَ الْعَالَمِ. | 27 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. |
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