James:2

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* My brothers , don 't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ , [the Lord ] of glory , with respect of persons . * For if there comes into your (note :){+}(:note ) synagogue a man with a gold ring , in fine clothing , and there comes in also a poor man in vile clothing ; * and you (note :){+}(:note ) have regard to him who wears the fine clothing , and say , You sit here in a good place ; and you {+} say to the poor man , You stand there , or sit under my footstool ; * Don 't you (note :){+}(:note ) make distinctions among yourselves , and become judges with evil thoughts ? * Listen , my beloved brothers ; did not God choose those who are poor as to the world [to be ] rich in faith , and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him ? * But you (note :){+}(:note ) have dishonored the poor man . Don 't the rich oppress you {+}, and themselves drag you {+} into court ? * Don 't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you (note :){+}(:note ) are called ? * Nevertheless if you (note :){+}(:note ) fulfill the royal law , according to the Scripture , You will love your fellow man as yourself , you {+} do well : * but if you (note :){+}(:note ) have respect of persons , you {+} commit sin , being convicted by the law as transgressors . * For whoever will keep the whole law , and yet stumble in one [point ], he has become guilty of all . * For he who said , Do not commit adultery , said also , Do not kill . Now if you do not commit adultery , but kill , you have become a transgressor of the law . * So speak (note :){+}(:note ), and so do {+}, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty . * For judgment [is ] without mercy to him who has shown no mercy : mercy glories against judgment . * What does it profit , my brothers , if a man says he has faith , but doesn 't have works ? Can that faith save him ? * If a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food , * and one of you (note :){+}(:note ) says to them , Go in peace , be {+} warmed and filled ; and yet you {+} don 't give them the things needful to the body ; what does it profit ? * Even so faith , if it doesn 't have works , is dead in itself . * Yes , a man will say , You have faith , and I have works : show me your faith apart from [your ] works , and I by my works will show you [my ] faith . * You believe that there is [only ] one God ; you do well : the demons also believe , and shudder . * But do you want to know , O vain man , that faith apart from works is barren ? * Wasn 't Abraham our father justified by works , in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar ? * You see that faith was working with his works , and by works was faith made perfect ; * and the Scripture was fulfilled which says , And Abraham believed God , and it was reckoned to him for righteousness ; and he was called the friend of God . * You (note :){+}(:note ) see that by works a man is justified , and not only by faith . * And in like manner wasn 't also Rahab the prostitute justified by works , in that she received the messengers , and sent them out another way ? * For as the body apart from the spirit is dead , even so faith apart from works is dead .

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