1 My brothers, do not in partiality hold the faith from our Lord Jesus Christ of glory. VP
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, VP
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,” VP
4 then did you⁺ not make a distinction among yourselves and become judges [with] evil reasonings? VP
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? VP
6 But you⁺ dishonored the poor [one]. Do not the rich oppress you⁺, and they drag you⁺ into court? VP
7 Do they not blaspheme the good Name having been called upon you⁺? VP
8 If indeed you⁺ fulfill [the] royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you⁺ are doing well. VP
9 But if you⁺ show partiality, you⁺ are working sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. VP
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, but shall stumble in one [part], he has become guilty of all. VP
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. VP
12 So speak and so act as being about to be judged by [the] law of freedom. VP
13 For judgment without mercy [will be] to the [one] not having done mercy. Mercy exults over judgment. VP
14 What [is] the gain, my brothers, if anyone says to have faith, but has no works? Is the faith able to save him? VP
15 Now if a brother or a sister is naked and lacking of daily food, VP
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? VP
17 So also, faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself. VP
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show to me your faith without works, and I will show to you faith by my works. VP
19 You believe that God is one. You do well! Even the demons believe [that], and shudder! VP
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is idle? VP
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having offered his son Isaac upon the altar? VP
22 You see that faith was working with his works, and by works, faith was perfected. VP
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled, the [one] saying, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. VP
24 You⁺ see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. VP
25 And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, having received the messengers and having sent [them] out by another way? VP
26 For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. VP