James 3
1 मेरा भाइ अनि बहिनीहरू, तिमीहरूमध्ये धेरै शिक्षक हुनु हुँदैन। किन? किनभने तिमीहरू जान्दछौ कि हामी जसले शिक्षा दिन्छौं अन्य मानिसहरू भन्दा कठिन प्रकारले जाँच गरिनेछौं।
2 हामी सबैले अनेकौ गल्तीहरू गर्छौं। यदि कसैले कहिल्यै पनि कुवचन बोलेनौं भने त्यो पक्का मानिस बन्नेछ। उ आफ्ना सम्पूर्ण सरिरलाई नियन्त्रणमा राख्न समर्थ हुनेछन्।
3 घोडालाई नियन्त्रणमा राख्न, हामी लगाम लगाइदिन्छौ। घोडाहरूका मुखमा लगाइएको लगामले हामी तिनीहरूको सम्मूर्ण शरिलाई अधीनमा राख्न सक्छौ।
4 जहाजहरू पनि यस्तै हुन्छन्। जहाज अत्यन्त विशाल हुन्छ अनि यसलाई शक्तिशाली वायुले धकेल्छ। तर सानो पतवारले विशाल जहाजलाई नियन्त्रण गर्छ। अनि नाविकले जहाज कता जानुपर्नेहो निर्णय गर्छ।
5 हाम्रो जिब्रो पनि यस्तै हो। यो शरीरको एक सुक्ष्म अङ्ग हो। तर यसले महान कुराको गर्व गर्छ।एउटा सानो फिलुंगोले वन सखाप पार्न सक्छ।
6 जिब्रो आगोको फिलुंगो जस्तै हो। हाम्रो शरीरका अंशहरू मध्ये यो दुष्टताको संसार हो। कसरी? जिब्रोले सारा शरीर नष्ट पार्छ। यसले हाम्रो सम्पूर्ण अस्तित्व नै ध्वंश पार्न सक्छ र नरकको आगोमा त्यो जल्छ।
7 मानिसहरूले हरेक किसिमका जङ्गली पशु चरा-चुरूङ्गीहरू, घस्रने प्राणीहरू अनि सामुद्रिक प्राणीहरू तह लगाउने सक्छन्। मानिसहरूले यी सबै प्राणीहरूलाई तहलगाएका छन्।
8 कसैले कहिल्यै जिब्रोलाई नियन्त्रण गर्नु सकेको छैन। यो जंगली अनि दुष्ट हुन्छ। जिब्रो विषले परिपूर्ण हुन्छ जसले मार्न सक्छ।
9 हामी हाम्रा जिब्रोलाई हाम्रो परमप्रभु अनि पिताको स्तुतिमा उपयोग गर्छौ। अनि अझै त्यही जिब्रोले हामी मानिसहरूलाई सराप्छौ जसलाई परमेश्वरको सकलमा बनाइएको छ।
10 स्तुति अनि सराप एउटै मुखबाट निस्कन्छन्। मेरा भाइ अनि बहिनीहरू, यस्तो हुनु हुँदैन।
11 के पानीको मूलबाट एउटै मिठो र तितो पानी एकैचोटी बग्छ? अहँ।
12 मेरा दाज्यू भाइ अनि दिदी बहिनी हो, के नेभारको बोटमा भद्राक्ष फल्न सक्छ? सक्तैन। के अंङ्गुरघारीमा नेभारा फल्छ? फल्दैन। तब, के नुनिलो उद्गमले मिठो पानी दिन सक्छ।
13 यहाँ तिमीहरू माझ कुनै यस्तो मानिस छ जो ज्ञानी अनि बुद्धिमान छ? तब उसले ठीकसित बसेर आफ्नो ज्ञानको प्रमाण दिनु पर्छ। उसले ज्ञानबाट आउने नम्रतासित काम गर्नुपर्छ।
14 यदि तिमीहरू स्वार्थी छौ अनि तिम्रो ह्रदय ईर्ष्या पूर्ण छ भने तिमीले तिम्रो ज्ञान बारेमा गर्व गर्ने केही कारण नै छैन। तिम्रो गर्व गराई झूटो सिवाय केही पनि होइन।
15 यस किसिमको “ज्ञान” माथिका परमेश्वरबाट आउँदैन। यो “ज्ञान” संसारबाट आउँछ। त्यो आध्यात्मिक होइन, त्यो शैतानबाट हो।
16 जहाँ इर्ष्या अनि स्वार्थ छ त्यहाँ अव्यवस्थित अनि हरेक किसिमको दुष्टाँई हुन्छन्।
17 तर ज्ञान जो माथिका परमेश्वरबाट आउँछ त्यो यस्तो हुन्छ प्रथम त्यो शुद्ध हुन्छ। त्यो शान्तिमय नम्र र र्तक संगति हुन्छ। यो ज्ञान सर्वदा जो मानिसहरू समस्यामा छन् तिनीहरूलाई सहायता गर्न सधैँ तत्पर रहन्छ अनि अन्य मानिसहरूको लागि उपकार गर्ने हुन्छ। यो ज्ञान सदैव निष्पक्ष अनि इमान्दार हुन्छ।
18 मानिसहरू जो शान्तिको निम्ति शान्तिसांथ कार्य गर्छन् तिनीहरूले धार्मिकताको फसल बटुल्छन्।
1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.