雅各書1:22-27

 

  1:22 但是，你們不要欺騙自己，以為只要聽道就夠了；相反地，你們必須行道。 1:23 那聽道而不去實行的，正像一個人對著鏡子，看看自己的面目， 1:24 端詳了一會兒，然後走開，立刻忘了自己的長相。 1:25 但是，嚴密查考那完整又使人得自由的法則而謹守的人，不是聽了就忘掉，而是切實行道的人；這樣的人在他所做的事上一定蒙上帝賜福。 1:26 誰自以為虔誠，卻不管束自己的舌頭，便是欺騙自己；他的虔誠毫無價值。 1:27 在父上帝眼中，那純潔沒有缺點的虔誠便是：照顧苦難中的孤兒寡婦和保守自己不受世界的腐化。

  Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does. If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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      照這段經文中我們看到上帝賜福給行道的人，就是『嚴密查考那完整又使人得自由的法則而謹守的人，不是聽了就忘掉，而是切實行道的人；這樣的人在他所做的事上一定蒙上帝賜福。』

      雖然是「因信稱義」，但是行道的必蒙上帝賜福，充滿喜樂！