سپتامبر 2, 2012, خواندن دوم

نامه سنت جیمز 1: 17-18, 21-22, 27

1:17 هر هدیه عالی و هر هدیه عالی از بالاست, نزول از پدر نورها, با آنها هیچ تغییری وجود ندارد, و نه هیچ سایه ای از تغییر.
1:18 زیرا او به اراده خود ما را از طریق کلام حقیقت پدید آورد, تا در میان مخلوقات او نوعی آغاز باشیم.
1:19 You know this, محبوب ترین برادران من. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
1:20 For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God.
1:21 به خاطر همین, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
1:22 So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves.
1:23 For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with;
1:24 and after considering himself, he went away and promptly forgot what he had seen.
1:25 But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.
1:26 But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.
1:27 This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.