Read James 2

World English Bible · 26 verses

1. ¹ My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Yes, a man 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org