Jubilee2000 - James - 2

2:1  My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus, the glorious Christ, with respect of persons.

2:2  For if a man with a gold ring and in precious apparel comes into your synagogue and a poor person in vile raiment also comes in,

2:3  and ye have respect to him that wears the precious clothing and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool:

2:4  Are ye not then judging in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts?

2:5  Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world [that they might be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him?

2:6  But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you [with violence] to the courts?

2:7  Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called?

2:8  If ye truly fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well;

2:9  but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin and are accused of the law as rebels.

2:10  For whosoever shall have kept the whole law, and then offends in one [point] is made guilty of all.

2:11  For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not murder. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou [commit] murder, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

2:12  So speak ye and so do as those that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

2:13  For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has showed no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.

2:14  My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says [that] they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?

2:15  If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

2:16  and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be [ye] warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what [shall it] profit them?

2:17  Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.

2:18  But someone may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.

2:19  Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well; the demons also believe and tremble.

2:20  But, O vain man, dost thou desire to know that faith without works is dead?

2:21  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?

2:22  Dost thou not see how the faith worked together with his works, and the faith was complete by the works?

2:23  And that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.

2:24  Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

2:25  Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent [them] out another way?

2:26  For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.: