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16 聽道和行道
星期三 雅各書 1:19~27

聽道和行道 Act on What You Hear

19 我親愛的弟兄們，你們要明白：你 19-21 Post this at all the intersections, dear
們每一個人要快快地聽，慢慢地說， friends: Lead with your ears, follow up
慢慢地動怒， with your tongue, and let anger
straggle along in the rear. God’s
20 因為人的怒氣並不能實現神的義。 righteousness doesn’t grow from
21 所以，你們要除去一切的污穢和累 human anger. So throw all spoiled
virtue and cancerous evil in the
積的惡毒，要存溫柔的心領受所栽 garbage. In simple humility, let our
種的道，就是能救你們靈魂的道。 gardener, God, landscape you with
the Word, making a salvation-garden
22 但是，你們要作行道的人，不要只 of your life.
作聽道的人，自己欺騙自己。
22-24 Don’t fool yourself into thinking that
23 因為只聽道而不行道的，就像人對 you are a listener when you are
鏡子觀看自己本來的面目， anything but, letting the Word go in
one ear and out the other. Act on
24 注視後，就離開，立刻忘了自己的 what you hear! Those who hear and
相貌如何。 don’t act are like those who glance in
the mirror, walk away, and two
25 惟有查看那完美、使人自由的律法， minutes later have no idea who they
並且時常遵守的，他不是聽了就忘， are, what they look like.
而是切實行出來，這樣的人在所行
的事上必然蒙福。 25 But whoever catches a glimpse of the
revealed counsel of God—the free
26 若有人自以為虔誠，卻不勒住自己 life!—even out of the corner of his eye,
的舌頭，反欺騙自己的心，這人的 and sticks with it, is no distracted
虔誠是徒然的。 scatterbrain but a man or woman of
action. That person will find delight
27 在神 —我們的父面前，清潔沒有 and affirmation in the action.
玷污的虔誠就是看顧在患難中的孤
兒寡婦，並且保守自己不沾染世俗。 26-27 Anyone 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. Real 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.