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Tiago 1 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
27 versículos · The Message, 2002
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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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1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: 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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2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
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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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3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
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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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4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in 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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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.
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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 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.
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7Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way,
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7For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
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8adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.
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8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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9When down-and-outers get a break, cheer!
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9But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
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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 the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
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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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15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
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16So, my very dear friends, don't get thrown off course.
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16Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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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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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.
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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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18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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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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19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
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20God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger.
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20for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
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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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21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able 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 be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
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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 anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural 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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24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 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.