Iacobi 1

Question 1

1 Jacobus, Dei et Domini nostri Jesu Christi servus, duodecim tribubus, quae sunt in dispersione, salutem.

Answer 1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Question 2

2 Omne gaudium existimate fratres mei, cum in tentationes varias incideritis:

Answer 2

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Question 3

3 scientes quod probatio fidei vestrae patientiam operatur.

Answer 3

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Question 4

4 Patientia autem opus perfectum habet: ut sitis perfecti et integri in nullo deficientes.

Answer 4

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Question 5

5 Si quis autem vestrum indiget sapientia, postulet a Deo, qui dat omnibus affluenter, et non improperat: et dabitur ei.

Answer 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.

Question 6

6 Postulet autem in fide nihil haesitans: qui enim haesitat, similis est fluctui maris, qui a vento movetur et circumfertur:

Answer 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.

Question 7

7 non ergo aestimet homo ille quod accipiat aliquid a Domino.

Answer 7

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Question 8

8 Vir duplex animo inconstans est in omnibus viis suis.

Answer 8

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Question 9

9 Glorietur autem frater humilis in exaltatione sua:

Answer 9

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

Question 10

10 dives autem in humilitate sua, quoniam sicut flos foeni transibit;

Answer 10

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Question 11

11 exortus est enim sol cum ardore, et arefecit foenum, et flos ejus decidit, et decor vultus ejus deperiit: ita et dives in itineribus suis marcescet.

Answer 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.

Question 12

12 Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem: quoniam cum probatus fuerit, accipiet coronam vitae, quam repromisit Deus diligentibus se.

Answer 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.

Question 13

13 Nemo cum tentatur, dicat quoniam a Deo tentatur: Deus enim intentator malorum est: ipse autem neminem tentat.

Answer 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:

Question 14

14 Unusquisque vero tentatur a concupiscentia sua abstractus, et illectus.

Answer 14

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Question 15

15 Deinde concupiscentia cum conceperit, parit peccatum: peccatum vero cum consummatum fuerit, generat mortem.

Answer 15

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Question 16

16 Nolite itaque errare, fratres mei dilectissimi.

Answer 16

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

Question 17

17 Omne datum optimum, et omne donum perfectum desursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio, nec vicissitudinis obumbratio.

Answer 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.

Question 18

18 Voluntarie enim genuit nos verbo veritatis, ut simus initium aliquod creaturae ejus.

Answer 18

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Question 19

19 Scitis, fratres mei dilectissimi. Sit autem omnis homo velox ad audiendum: tardus autem ad loquendum, et tardus ad iram.

Answer 19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Question 20

20 Ira enim viri justitiam Dei non operatur.

Answer 20

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Question 21

21 Propter quod abjicientes omnem immunditiam, et abundantiam malitiae, in mansuetudine suscipite insitum verbum, quod potest salvare animas vestras.

Answer 21

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Question 22

22 Estote autem factores verbi, et non auditores tantum: fallentes vosmetipsos.

Answer 22

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Question 23

23 Quia si quis auditor est verbi, et non factor, hic comparabitur viro consideranti vultum nativitatis suae in speculo:

Answer 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:

Question 24

24 consideravit enim se, et abiit, et statim oblitus est qualis fuerit.

Answer 24

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Question 25

25 Qui autem perspexerit in legem perfectam libertatis, et permanserit in ea, non auditor obliviosus factus, sed factor operis: hic beatus in facto suo erit.

Answer 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.

Question 26

26 Si quis autem putat se religiosum esse, non refrenans linguam suam, sed seducens cor suum, hujus vana est religio.

Answer 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.

Question 27

27 Religio munda et immaculata apud Deum et Patrem, haec est: visitare pupillos et viduas in tribulatione eorum, et immaculatum se custodire ab hoc saeculo.

Answer 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.