- 2:1 My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with respect of persons.
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我的弟兄们，你们既相信我们荣耀的主耶稣基督，便不可按着外貌待人。
- 2:2 For if there comes into your synagogue a man with gold rings in splendid clothing, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy clothing,
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若有一个人戴着金戒指，穿着华丽衣服，进你们的会堂去，又有一个穷人，穿着肮脏衣服也进去；
- 2:3 And you look upon the one wearing the splendid clothing and say, You sit here in a good place, and to the poor man you say, You stand there, or sit under my footstool;
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你们就重看那穿华丽衣服的人，说，请你坐在这好位上；又对那穷人说，你站在那里，或坐在我脚凳下边。
- 2:4 Have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil reasonings?
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这岂不是你们中间有了歧视，用恶意判断人么？
- 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers: Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which He promised to those who love Him?
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我亲爱的弟兄们，请听，神岂不是拣选了世上贫穷的人，叫他们在信上富足，并承受祂所应许给那些爱祂之人的国么？
- 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and is it not they who drag you to the courts?
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你们反倒羞辱贫穷的人。那富足的人岂不是欺压你们，拉你们到法庭去么？
- 2:7 Is it not they who blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
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他们不是亵渎那在你们身上被称呼的尊名么？
- 2:8 If indeed you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
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你们若照着经上“要爱邻舍如同自己”的话，成全这君尊的律法，你们就作得好了；
- 2:9 But if you respect persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
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但你们若按外貌待人，便是犯罪，给律法定为犯法的。
- 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law yet stumbles in one point has become guilty of all.
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因为凡遵守全律法，却在一条上失脚的，他就是犯了众条。
- 2:11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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原来那说不可奸淫的，也说不可杀人。你若是不奸淫，却杀人，还是成了犯律法的。
- 2:12 So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
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你们既然要按自由的律法受审判，就该照这律法说话行事。
- 2:13 For the judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
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因为那不怜悯人的，也要受无怜悯的审判；怜悯原是向审判夸胜。
- 2:14 What is the profit, my brothers, if anyone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
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我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处？难道这信心能救他么？
- 2:15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and lacks daily food,
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若有弟兄或姊妹经常是赤身露体的，又缺了日用的食物，
- 2:16 And any one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, yet you do not give them the necessities of the body, what is the profit?
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而你们中间有人对他们说，平平安安的去吧，愿你们穿得暖，吃得饱；却不给他们身体所需用的，有什么益处？
- 2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
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信心也是这样，若没有行为，就是死的。
- 2:18 But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
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有人会说，你有信心，我有行为；你将你没有行为的信心指给我看，我便由我的行为，将我的信心指给你看。
- 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe and shudder.
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你信神只有一位；你信的不错；鬼也信，却是战惊。
- 2:20 But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith without its works is useless?
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虚浮的人哪，你愿意知道没有行为的信心是无用的么？
- 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
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我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕，把他儿子以撒献在坛上，岂不是本于行为得称义么？
- 2:22 You see that faith worked together with his works, and by these works faith was perfected.
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你看，信心是与他的行为同工，而且信心本于行为才得完全；
- 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God.
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这就应验经上所说的：“亚伯拉罕信神，这就算为他的义。”他又得称为神的朋友。
- 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith only.
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可见人得称义是本于行为，不是单本于信。
- 2:25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works in that she received the messengers and sent them out by a different way?
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妓女喇合接待使者，又放他们从别的路上出去，不也是一样本于行为得称义么？
- 2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
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身体没有灵是死的，照样，信心没有行为也是死的。