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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. |
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