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Tiago 1 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
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1I, James, am a slave of God and the Master Jesus, writing to the twelve tribes scattered to Kingdom Come: Hello!
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1This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes” — Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!
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2Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.
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2Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.
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3You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors.
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3For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
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4So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
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4So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
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5If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it.
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5If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.
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6Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves.
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6But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.
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7Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way,
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7Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
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8adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.
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8Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.
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9When down-and-outers get a break, cheer!
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9Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them.
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10And when the arrogant rich are brought down to size, cheer! Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don't ever count on it.
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10And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field.
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11You know that as soon as the sun rises, pouring down its scorching heat, the flower withers. Its petals wilt and, before you know it, that beautiful face is a barren stem. Well, that's a picture of the "prosperous life." At the very moment everyone is looking on in admiration, it fades away to nothing.
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11The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.
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12Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.
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12God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
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13Don't let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, "God is trying to trip me up." God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one's way.
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13And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else.
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14The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust.
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14Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
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15Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.
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15These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.
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16So, my very dear friends, don't get thrown off course.
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16So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.
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17Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle.
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17Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.
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18He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.
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18He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.
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19Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear.
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19Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
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20God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger.
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20Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.
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21So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
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21So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.
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22Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear!
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22But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.
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23Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror,
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23For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.
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24walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
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24You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
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25But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
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25But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
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26Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air.
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26If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
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27Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
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27Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.