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2:1  My brothers and sisters, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Yeshua the Messiah while showing favoritism.
2:2  For if a man with a gold ring and fine clothes comes into your synagogue, and a poor person in filthy clothes also comes in;
2:3  and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you say to the poor person, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;
2:4  haven’t you made distinctions between 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 promised to those who love Him?
2:6  But you have dishonored the poor person. Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
2:7  Don’t they blaspheme the good name by which you were called?
2:8  If, however, you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
2:9  But if you show favoritism, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Torah as transgressors.
2:10  For whoever keeps the whole Torah but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
2:11  For the one 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 Torah.
2:12  So speak and act as those who will be judged according to a Torah that gives freedom.
2:13  For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14  What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Can such faith save him?
2:15  If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food,
2:16  and one of you says to them, “Go in shalom, keep warm and well fed,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is that?
2:17  So also 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. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder!
2:20  But do you want to know, you empty person, that faith without works is dead?
2:21  Wasn’t Abraham our father proved righteous by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
2:22  You see that faith worked together with his works, and by the works his faith was made complete.
2:23  The Scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”—and he was called God’s friend.
2:24  You see that a man is proved righteous by works and not by faith alone.
2:25  And likewise, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also proved righteous by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out another way?
2:26  For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.