¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

¹Jakob, Boga in Gospoda Jezusa Kristusa hlapec, pozdravlja dvanajstere rodove, ki so razkropljeni.

²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

²Zgolj v veselje si štejte, bratje moji, kadar pridete v mnogotere izkušnjave,

³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

³ker veste, da preizkušnja vere vaše rodi stanovitnost.

⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

⁴Stanovitnost pa imej za delo popolno, da bodete popolni in dovršeni, v ničemer pogrešni.

⁵If 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.

⁵Če pa ima kdo izmed vas premalo modrosti, naj je prosi Boga, ki vsem daje obilo in nikomur ne oponaša; in dala se mu bo.

⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

⁶Prosi pa naj v veri in nič ne dvomi; zakaj kdor dvomi, je podoben valu morskemu, ki ga veter žene in premetava.

⁷For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

⁷Naj vendar ne misli tisti človek, da kaj dobi od Gospoda,

⁸A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

⁸mož dvojnih misli, nestanoviten na vseh potih svojih!

⁹Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

⁹Ponaša pa naj se nizki brat v visokosti svoji,

¹⁰But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

¹⁰a bogati v ponižanju svojem, kajti mine kakor trave cvet.

¹¹For 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.

¹¹Vzide namreč solnce z vročino in posuši travo, in njen cvet odpade in lepota lica njenega izgine: tako tudi bogatin zvene v svojih podjetjih.

¹²Blessed 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.

¹²Blagor možu, ki pretrpi izkušnjavo; ker ko bo preizkušen, prejme venec življenja, ki ga je obljubil Gospod tem, ki ga ljubijo.

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

¹³Nihče naj ne reče, ko je v izkušnjavi: Bog me izkuša; zakaj Bog ne more biti izkušan v hudo, sam pa tudi ne izkuša nikogar.

¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁴Sleherni pa je izkušan, ko ga lastne želje vlečejo in vabijo;

¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

¹⁵potem, ko želja spočne, rodi greh, greh pa, ko je dovršen, rodi smrt.

¹⁶Do not err, my beloved brethren.

¹⁶Ne tavajte, bratje moji ljubljeni!

¹⁷Every 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.

¹⁷Vsak dober dar in vsako popolno darilo je od zgoraj in prihaja od Očeta luči, pri katerem ni izpremembe ali sence vsled obrata svetil.

¹⁸Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

¹⁸Iz svoje volje nas je rodil po besedi resnice, da bodimo neka prvina stvari njegovih.

¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

¹⁹Veste to, bratje moji ljubljeni. Bodi pa vsak človek hiter za poslušanje, počasen za govorjenje, počasen za jezo;

²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

²⁰kajti jeza človekova ne dela pravičnosti Božje.

²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²¹Zato odloživši sleherno nesnago in obilnost hudobnosti, v krotkosti sprejmite vsajeno besedo, ki more rešiti duše vaše.

²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

²²Bodite pa delavci besede in ne samo poslušalci, ki sami sebe slepe.

²³For 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:

²³Kajti če je kdo poslušalec besede, ne pa delavec, ta je podoben možu, ki ogleduje v zrcalu svojega rojstva obličje:

²⁴For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

²⁴pogleda se namreč in odide, in hitro pozabi, kakšen da je.

²⁵But 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.

²⁵Kdor pa prav pogleda v popolno postavo, postavo svobode, in pri njej vztraja ter ne pozabi, kar sliši, ampak dejanski izvršuje to, ta bode blažen v dejanju svojem.

²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

²⁶Če meni kdo, da služi Bogu, pa ne brzda jezika svojega, temuč vara srce svoje, njegovo bogoslužje je ničevo.Bogoslužje čisto in neoskrunjeno pred Bogom in Očetom je to: skrbeti za sirote in vdove v njih stiski in se ohraniti neomadeževanega od sveta.

²⁷Pure 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.

²⁷Bogoslužje čisto in neoskrunjeno pred Bogom in Očetom je to: skrbeti za sirote in vdove v njih stiski in se ohraniti neomadeževanega od sveta.