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The Letter from James, Chapter 2
{2:1} My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of
glory with partiality. {2:2} For if a man with a gold ring, in fine
clothing, comes into your [1>]synagogue[<1], and a poor man in filthy
clothing also comes in; {2:3} and you pay special attention to him who
wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you
tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" {2:4}
haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with
evil thoughts? {2:5} Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose
those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the
Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? {2:6} But you have
dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally
drag you before the courts? {2:7} Don't they blaspheme the honorable
name by which you are called? {2:8} However, if you fulfill the royal
law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself,"[2] you do well. {2:9} But if you show partiality, you
commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. {2:10} For
whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has
become guilty of all. {2:11} For he who said, "Do not commit
adultery,"[3] also said, "Do not commit murder."[4] Now if you do not
commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the
law. {2:12} So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law
of freedom. {2:13} For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown
no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
{2:14} What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but
has no works? Can faith save him? {2:15} And if a brother or sister is
naked and in lack of daily food, {2:16} and one of you tells them, "Go
in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the
things the body needs, what good is it? {2:17} Even so faith, if it
has no works, is dead in itself. {2:18} Yes, a man will say, "You have
faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by
my works will show you my faith.
{2:19} You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also
believe, and shudder. {2:20} But do you want to know, vain man, that
faith apart from works is dead? {2:21} Wasn't Abraham our father
justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
{2:22} You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith
was perfected; {2:23} and the Scripture was fulfilled which says,
"Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as
righteousness;"[5] and he was called the friend of God. {2:24} You see
then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. {2:25}
In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in
that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
{2:26} For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith
apart from works is dead.
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:2} or, meeting
[2] {2:8} Leviticus 19:18
[3] {2:11} Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18
[4] {2:11} Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17
[5] {2:23} Genesis 15:16
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