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2:1  My brothers and sisters, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
2:2  For if someone comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor person dressed in filthy clothes also comes in,
2:3  if you look with favor on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor person, “Stand over there,” or “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”
2:4  haven’t you made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
2:5  Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
2:6  Yet you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into court?
2:7  Don’t they blaspheme the good name that was invoked over you?
2:8  Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.
2:9  If, however, you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10  For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.
2:11  For he who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker.
2:12  Speak and act as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
2:13  For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14  What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?
2:15  If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food
2:16  and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?
2:17  In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
2:18  But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works.
2:19  You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe—and they shudder.
2:20  Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
2:21  Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar?
2:22  You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was made complete,
2:23  and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.
2:24  You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
2:25  In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route?
2:26  For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.