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

¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

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

²Count it all joy, my brothers The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” , when you fall into various temptations,

³ker veste, da preizkušnja vere vaše rodi stanovitnost.

³knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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

⁴Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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.

⁵But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

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

⁶But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

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

⁷For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

⁸mož dvojnih misli, nestanoviten na vseh potih svojih!

⁸He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹Ponaša pa naj se nizki brat v visokosti svoji,

⁹But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

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

¹⁰and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

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

¹¹For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

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

¹²Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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.

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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

¹⁴But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

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

¹⁵Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

¹⁶Ne tavajte, bratje moji ljubljeni!

¹⁶Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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

¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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

¹⁸Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

¹⁹So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

²⁰kajti jeza človekova ne dela pravičnosti Božje.

²⁰for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

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

²¹Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls or, preserve your life. .

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

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

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

²³For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

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

²⁴for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

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.

²⁵But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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.

²⁶If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

²⁷Bogoslužje 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 our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.