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2 : 1 My brothers,show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ,the Lord of glory.
2 : 2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,
2 : 3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say,You sit here in a good place,while you say to the poor man,You stand over there,or,Sit down at my feet,
2 : 4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and becomejudges with evil thoughts?
2 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers,has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to berich in faith and heirs ofthe kingdom,which he has promised to those who love him?
2 : 6 But youhave dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones whodrag youinto court?
2 : 7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorablename by which you were called?
2 : 8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture,You shall love your neighbor as yourself,you are doing well.
2 : 9 But if youshow partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
2 : 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one pointhas become accountable for all of it.
2 : 11 For he who said,Do not commit adultery,also said,Do not murder.If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
2 : 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged underthe law of liberty.
2 : 13 Forjudgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2 : 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faithbut does not have works? Can that faith save him?
2 : 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
2 : 16 and one of you says to them,Go in peace, be warmed and filled,without giving them the things needed for the body, what goodis that?
2 : 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
2 : 18 But someone will say,You have faith and I have works.Show me your faithapart from your works, and I will show you my faithby my works.
2 : 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Eventhe demons believe&emdash;and shudder!
2 : 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
2 : 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
2 : 22 You see thatfaith was active along with his works, and faith was completedby his works;
2 : 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says,Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness&emdash;and he was called afriend of God.
2 : 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
2 : 25 And in the same way was not alsoRahab the prostitute justified by workswhen she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
2 : 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.