James 2 — GMV

2 Verse 1 My brothers, practice your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, without showing partiality. ^{Verse 2} Suppose a man in fine clothing comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in. ^{Verse 3} If you pay attention to the man who is wearing fine clothing and say to him, “Yoʋ sit here in a good place,” but you say to the poor man, “Yoʋ stand there, or sit here under my footstool,” ^{Verse 4} have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? ^{Verse 5} Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? ^{Verse 6} But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Are they not the ones who drag you into court? ^{Verse 7} Do they not blaspheme the good name by which you are called? ^{Verse 8} If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor as yoʋrself,” you do well. ^{Verse 9} But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. ^{Verse 10} For whoever keeps the entire law but stumbles in one point has become guilty of it all. ^{Verse 11} For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if yoʋ do not commit adultery but do commit murder, yoʋ have become a transgressor of the law. ^{Verse 12} Speak and act as people who will be judged by the law of liberty. ^{Verse 13} For judgment is without mercy to anyone who has not shown mercy; mercy is exalted over judgment. ^{Verse 14} What is the benefit, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ^{Verse 15} If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, ^{Verse 16} and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them anything to address their physical needs, what is the benefit? ^{Verse 17} In the same way faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ^{Verse 18} But someone will say, “Yoʋ have faith, and I have works.” Show me yoʋr faith by yoʋr works, and I, by my works, will show yoʋ my faith. ^{Verse 19} Do yoʋ believe that God is one? Yoʋ do well; even the demons believe—and shudder! ^{Verse 20} Do yoʋ want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? ^{Verse 21} Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? ^{Verse 22} Do yoʋ see how faith was active along with his works, and by works his faith was brought to completion? ^{Verse 23} And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. ^{Verse 24} You see then that a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone. ^{Verse 25} In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? ^{Verse 26} For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead. 20 James 02_21.pngspanPublic Domain (Gustave Doré)Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?2:21