WEDNESDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2017
JAMES 2:14-20
Faith and Deeds
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]?
Footnotes:
- James 2:20 Some early manuscripts dead
JUMATANO TAREHE 25/10/2017
Yak 2: 14-20
Imani na Matendo
14 Ndugu zangu, yafaa nini, mtu akisema ya kwamba anayo imani, lakini hana matendo? Je! Ile imani yaweza kumwokoa?
15 Ikiwa ndugu mwanamume au ndugu mwanamke yu uchi na kupungukiwa na riziki,
16 na mtu wa kwenu akawaambia, Enendeni zenu kwa amani, mkaote moto na kushiba, lakini asiwape mahitaji ya mwili, yafaa nini?
17 Vivyo hivyo na imani, isipokuwa ina matendo, imekufa nafsini mwake.
18 Lakini mtu atasema, Wewe unayo imani, nami ninayo matendo. Nionyeshe imani yako pasipo matendo, nami nitakuonyesha imani yangu kwa njia ya matendo yangu.
19 Wewe waamini ya kuwa Mungu ni mmoja; watenda vema. Mashetani nao waamini na kutetemeka.
20 Lakini wataka kujua, wewe mwanadamu usiye kitu, kwamba imani pasipo matendo haizai?
