James 2:1-16 ▼

1 My brothers, do not in partiality hold the faith from our Lord Jesus Christ of glory.

2 For if a man might come into your? synagogue in splendid apparel with a gold ring, and a poor one in filthy apparel also might come in,

3 and you? might look upon the man bearing the splendid apparel and might say, “You sit here well,” and to the poor one might say, “You stand,” or, “Sit there under my footstool,”

4 then did you? not make a distinction among yourselves and become judges with evil reasonings?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers: Did not God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He promised to those loving Him?

6 But you? dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich oppress you?, and they drag you? into court?

7 Do they not blaspheme the good Name having been called upon you??

8 If indeed you? fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you? are doing well.

9 But if you? show partiality, you? are working sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, but shall stumble in one part, he has become guilty of all.

11 For the One having said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” But if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

12 So speak and so act as being about to be judged by the law of freedom.

13 For judgment without mercy will be to the one not having done mercy. Mercy exults over judgment.

14 What is the gain, my brothers, if anyone says to have faith, but has no works? Is the faith able to save him?

15 Now if a brother or a sister is naked and lacking of daily food,

16 and anyone of you? says to them, “Go in peace; be warmed and be filled,” but does not give to them the needful things for the body, what is the gain?