¹不可重富轻贫

¹My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

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。

²For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue or, meeting , and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

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。”

³and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;

⁴这不是你们对人有歧视，成了心怀恶意的审判官吗？

⁴haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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。

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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？

⁶But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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？”）

⁷Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

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。

⁸However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” Leviticus 19:18 you do well.

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。

⁹But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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。

¹⁰For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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。

¹¹For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18 also said, “Do not commit murder.” Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17 Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

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。

¹²So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

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。

¹³For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁴信心没有行为是死的我的弟兄们，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？

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

¹⁵如果有弟兄或姊妹缺衣少食，

¹⁵And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

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？

¹⁶and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

¹⁷照样，如果只有信心，没有行为，这信心就是死的。

¹⁷Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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。

¹⁸Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

¹⁹你信　神只有一位，你信的不错；就连鬼魔也信，却是战兢。

¹⁹You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

²⁰愚昧的人哪，你愿意知道没有行为的信心是没有用的吗？

²⁰But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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？

²¹Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

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；

²²You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

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。

²³and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; Genesis 15:6 and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴可见人称义是因着行为，不仅是因着信心。

²⁴You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

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？

²⁵In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

²⁶身体没有灵魂是死的，照样，信心没有行为也是死的。

²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.