Santiago 1
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James 1
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| SANTIAGO, siervo de Dios y del Señor Jesucristo, á las doce tribus que están esparcidas, salud. | James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth. |
| Hermanos míos, tened por sumo gozo cuando cayereis en diversas tentaciones; | Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort; |
| Sabiendo que la prueba de vuestra fe obra paciencia. | Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope; |
| Mas tenga la paciencia perfecta su obra, para que seáis perfectos y cabales, sin faltar en alguna cosa. | But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing. |
| Y si alguno de vosotros tiene falta de sabiduría, demándela á Dios, el cual da á todos abundantemente, y no zahiere; y le será dada. | But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him. |
| Pero pida en fe, no dudando nada: porque el que duda es semejante á la onda de la mar, que es movida del viento, y echada de una parte á otra. | Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind. |
| No piense pues el tal hombre que recibirá ninguna cosa del Señor. | Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord; |
| El hombre de doblado ánimo es inconstante en todos sus caminos. | For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways. |
| El hermano que es de baja suerte, gloríese en su alteza: | But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up; |
| Mas el que es rico, en su bajeza; porque él se pasará como la flor de la hierba. | But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. |
| Porque salido el sol con ardor, la hierba se secó, y su flor se cayó, y pereció su hermosa apariencia: así también se marchitará el rico en todos sus caminos. | For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways. |
| Bienaventurado el varón que sufre la tentación; porque cuando fuere probado, recibirá la corona de vida, que Dios ha prometido á los que le aman. | There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him. |
| Cuando alguno es tentado, no diga que es tentado de Dios: porque Dios no puede ser tentado de los malos, ni él tienta á alguno: | Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test: |
| Sino que cada uno es tentado, cuando de su propia concupiscencia es atraído, y cebado. | But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. |
| Y la concupiscencia, después que ha concebido, pare el pecado: y el pecado, siendo cumplido, engendra muerte. | Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death. |
| Amados hermanos míos, no erréis. | Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. |
| Toda buena dádiva y todo don perfecto es de lo alto, que desciende del Padre de las luces, en el cual no hay mudanza, ni sombra de variación. | Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. |
| El, de su voluntad nos ha engendrado por la palabra de verdad, para que seamos primicias de sus criaturas. | Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made. |
| Por esto, mis amados hermanos, todo hombre sea pronto para oir, tardío para hablar, tardío para airarse: | You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; |
| Porque la ira del hombre no obra la justicia de Dios. | For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man. |
| Por lo cual, dejando toda inmundicia y superfluidad de malicia, recibid con mansedumbre la palabra ingerida, la cual puede hacer salvas vuestras almas. | For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. |
| Mas sed hacedores de la palabra, y no tan solamente oidores, engañándoos á vosotros mismos. | But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas. |
| Porque si alguno oye la palabra, y no la pone por obra, este tal es semejante al hombre que considera en un espejo su rostro natural. | Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass; |
| Porque él se consideró á sí mismo, y se fué, y luego se olvidó qué tal era. | For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like. |
| Mas el que hubiere mirado atentamente en la perfecta ley, que es la de la libertad, y perseverado en ella, no siendo oidor olvidadizo, sino hacedor de la obra, este tal será bienaventurado en su hecho. | But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts. |
| Si alguno piensa ser religioso entre vosotros, y no refrena su lengua, sino engañando su corazón, la religión del tal es vana. | If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value. |
| La religión pura y sin mácula delante de Dios y Padre es esta: Visitar los huérfanos y las viudas en sus tribulaciones, y guardarse sin mancha de este mundo. | The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world. |
