¹ 耶和華對亞伯蘭說：你要離開本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。

² 我必叫你成為大國。我必賜福給你，叫你的名為大；你也要叫別人得福。

³ 為你祝福的，我必賜福與他；那咒詛你的，我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。

⁴ 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。

⁵ 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得，連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口，都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。

⁶ 亞伯蘭經過那地，到了示劍地方、摩利橡樹那裡。那時迦南人住在那地。

⁷ 耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現，說：我要把這地賜給你的後裔。亞伯蘭就在那裡為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。

⁸ 從那裡他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳棚；西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裡又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。

⁹ 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。

¹⁰ 那地遭遇饑荒。因饑荒甚大，亞伯蘭就下埃及去，要在那裡暫居。

¹¹ 將近埃及，就對他妻子撒萊說：我知道你是容貌俊美的婦人。

¹² 埃及人看見你必說：這是他的妻子，他們就要殺我，卻叫你存活。

¹³ 求你說，你是我的妹子，使我因你得平安，我的命也因你存活。

¹⁴ 及至亞伯蘭到了埃及，埃及人看見那婦人極其美貌。

¹⁵ 法老的臣宰看見了他，就在法老面前誇獎他。那婦人就被帶進法老的宮去。

¹⁶ 法老因這婦人就厚待亞伯蘭，亞伯蘭得了許多牛、羊、駱駝、公驢、母驢、僕婢。

¹⁷ 耶和華因亞伯蘭妻子撒萊的緣故，降大災與法老和他的全家。

¹⁸ 法老就召了亞伯蘭來，說：你這向我作的是甚麼事呢？為甚麼沒有告訴我他是你的妻子？

¹⁹ 為甚麼說他是你的妹子，以致我把他取來要作我的妻子？現在你的妻子在這裡，可以帶他走罷。

²⁰ 於是法老吩咐人將亞伯蘭和他妻子，並他所有的都送走了。

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁵ But 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.

⁶ But 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.

⁷ For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

⁸ He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹ But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

¹¹ For 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.

¹² Blessed 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.

¹³ Let 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.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵ Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

¹⁶ Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

¹⁷ Every 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.

¹⁸ Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

²⁰ for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

²¹ Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

²³ For 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;

²⁴ for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

²⁵ But 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.

²⁶ If 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.

²⁷ Pure 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.