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2:1  My brothers, stop showing favoritism as you live out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. ·
2:2  For if a man comes into your congregation wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes in,
2:3  and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes · and say, “You sit here in a good place,” but to the poor man you say, “You stand over there, or sit down here at · my feet,”
2:4  have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?
2:5  Listen, my dear brothers! Did not · God choose those whom the world considers poor to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?
2:6  But you have dishonored the poor! Is it not the rich who oppress you? And are not they the ones who drag you into court?
2:7  Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the honorable name by which you were called?
2:8  If you really fulfill the royal law as set forth in this scripture, “You shall love · your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
2:9  But if you show favoritism, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10  For whoever keeps the entire law yet fails at a single point has become guilty of the law as a whole.
2:11  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 law.
2:12  So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law that brings freedom.
2:13  · For judgment will be without mercy for one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14  What · good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no works? Can that kind of faith save him?
2:15  If a brother or sister lacks adequate clothing and is in need of daily food,
2:16  and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; stay warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not give them what their body needs, what · good is that?
2:17  In the same way · · faith, if it has no works, is dead, since it is 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 my faith by · my works.
2:19  You believe that God is one; · you do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder.
2:20  Would you like · to be shown, you shallow person, that · faith without · works is useless?
2:21  Was not Abraham · our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac · on the altar?
2:22  You see that · faith was at work along with · his works and that his faith was made complete by his works.
2:23  And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed · God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend 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 also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she took in the spies and sent them out by another way?
2:26  For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also · faith devoid of works is dead.