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James, Chapter 2

¹ My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. ² For if a man comes into your^a Or synagogueassembly with a gold ring and dressed in^b Or brightfine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, ³ and you^c Lit look atpay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,” ⁴ have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil^d Lit reasoningsmotives? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor^e Lit to theof this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and^f Lit they themselvespersonally drag you into^g Lit courtscourt? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the fair name^h Lit which has been called upon youby which you have been called?	1 Jam 1:16 Heb 12:2 Act 7:2 Co1 2:8 Act 10:34 Jam 2:9 2 Luk 23:11 Jam 2:3 Zec 3:3 3 Luk 23:11 4 Luk 18:6 Joh 7:24 5 Jam 1:16 Job 34:19 Co1 1:27 Luk 12:21 Rev 2:9 Mat 5:3 Mat 25:34 Jam 1:12 6 Act 8:3 Act 16:19 7 Act 11:26 Pe1 4:16
⁸ If, however, you are fulfilling theⁱ Or law of our Kingroyal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. ⁹ But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the^j Or Lawlaw as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole^k Or Lawlaw and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For He who said, “DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,” also said, “DO NOT COMMIT MURDER.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the^l Or Lawlaw. ¹² So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy^m Lit boasts againsttriumphs over judgment.	8 Mat 7:12 Lev 19:18 9 Act 10:34 Jam 2:1 10 Jam 3:2 Pe2 1:10 Jud 1:24 Mat 5:19 Gal 5:3 11 Exo 20:14 Deu 5:18 Exo 20:13 Deu 5:17 12 Jam 1:25 13 Pro 21:13 Mat 5:7 Mat 18:32-35 Luk 6:37
¹⁴ What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Canⁿ Lit thethat faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Go in peace,^o Or warm yourselves and fill yourselvesbe warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? ¹⁷ Even so faith, if it has no works, is^p Or dead by its own standardsdead, being by itself.	14 Jam 1:22 Jam 1:16 15 Mat 25:35 Luk 3:11 16 Jo1 3:17 17 Gal 5:6 Jam 2:20 Jam 2:26
¹⁸ But someone^q Lit willmay well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” ¹⁹ You believe that^r One early ms reads there is one GodGod is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. ²⁰ But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith was working with his works, and^s Or by the deedsas a result of the works, faith was^t Or completedperfected; ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS,” and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. ²⁵ In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? ²⁶ For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.	18 Rom 9:19 Rom 3:28 Rom 4:6 Heb 11:33 Jam 3:13 Mat 7:16 Gal 5:6 19 Deu 6:4 Mar 12:29 Jam 2:8 Mat 8:29 Mar 1:24 Mar 5:7 Luk 4:34 Act 19:15 20 Rom 9:20 Co1 15:36 Gal 5:6 Jam 2:17 Jam 2:26 21 Gen 22:9 Gen 22:10 Gen 22:12 Gen 22:16-18 22 Joh 6:29 Heb 11:17 Th1 1:3 23 Gen 15:6 Rom 4:3 Ch2 20:7 Isa 41:8 25 Heb 11:31 Jos 2:4 Jos 2:6 Jos 2:15 26 Gal 5:6 Jam 2:17 Jam 2:20


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