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2:1  My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
2:2  For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.
2:3  If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, "Sit here in a good place," and yet you say to the poor man, "Stand over there," or, "Sit here on the floor by my footstool,"
2:4  haven't you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
2:5  Listen, my dear brothers: 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 dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
2:7  Don't they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?
2:8  Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.
2:9  But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10  For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in 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 do murder, you are a lawbreaker.
2:12  Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.
2:13  For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14  What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his 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, keep warm, and eat well," but you don't give them what the body needs, what good is it?
2:17  In the same way faith, if it doesn't 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 from my works.
2:19  You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe--and they shudder.
2:20  Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
2:21  Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
2:22  You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected.
2:23  So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, and he was called God's friend.
2:24  You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
2:25  And in the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent 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.