James 2

1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality. ‡ Pro 24:23Jas 2:9Deu 16:19Lev 19:15Deu 1:17Pro 28:212Ch 19:7Mat 22:16 +172 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, ¹ and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, ‡ Est 3:10Luk 15:22Est 8:2Gen 27:15Mat 11:8-9Zec 3:3-4Isa 64:6 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” ‡ 2Co 8:9Jas 2:6Luk 7:44-46Isa 65:5Jud 1:16 4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? ‡ Jhn 7:24Job 34:19Mat 7:1-5Jas 4:11Mal 2:9Psa 58:1Psa 82:2Jas 1:1-27 +25 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? ‡ Mat 5:3Luk 6:20Rev 2:91Co 1:26-282Co 8:9Luk 12:21Heb 11:261Pe 1:4 +436 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts? ‡ Pro 17:5Pro 14:311Co 11:22Psa 14:6Jas 5:4Act 13:50Act 16:19-20Act 17:6 +287 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? ‡ Php 2:9-111Ti 1:13Act 11:26Eph 3:15Psa 111:9Rev 13:5-6Act 26:11Act 4:12 +12

8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” ² you do well. ‡ Lev 19:18Gal 5:14Mat 22:39Jas 2:12Rom 13:8-9Gal 6:2Lev 19:34Mrk 12:31-33 +129 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ‡ Lev 19:15Jas 2:1-4Jhn 8:91Jn 3:4Jhn 16:8Jhn 8:46Rom 3:201Co 14:24 +310 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. ‡ Gal 3:10Mat 5:18-19Deu 27:26 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ³ also said, “Do not commit murder.” ⁴ Now if you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. ‡ Exo 20:13-14Mat 5:21-28Deu 5:17-18Rom 13:9Luk 18:20Mat 19:18Mrk 10:19Psa 130:3-4 +312 So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom. ‡ Jas 1:25Jas 2:82Pe 1:4-8Php 4:8Col 3:17 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. ‡ Mat 5:7Mat 6:15Pro 21:13Luk 6:37Eph 2:4-7Mat 18:28-35Psa 18:25Mat 7:1-2 +14

14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? ‡ Mat 7:26-27Mat 7:21-23Jas 1:22-25Luk 6:49Tit 1:162Pe 1:5Jas 2:261Co 13:2-3 +2115 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, ‡ Luk 3:11Mat 25:35-40Isa 58:7Isa 58:10Job 31:16-21Jas 2:5Heb 11:37Mrk 14:7 +216 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? ‡ Pro 3:27-281Jn 3:16-18Mat 25:42-45Rom 12:92Co 8:8Mat 14:15-16Job 22:7-9Mat 15:32 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. ‡ Jas 2:262Pe 1:5-9Jas 2:19-20Jas 2:141Co 13:131Ti 1:51Th 1:31Co 13:3 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. ‡ Jas 3:13Jas 2:141Ti 1:5Gal 5:6Tit 2:11-14Tit 2:71Th 1:3-10Mat 7:16-17 +11

19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder. ‡ Luk 4:34Mrk 1:24Mat 8:29Act 16:17Deu 6:4Act 19:15Gal 3:20Isa 44:8 +2320 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? ‡ Jas 2:17Jas 2:26Pro 12:11Rom 1:21Gal 6:3Psa 94:8-111Co 15:35-361Ti 1:6 +621 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ‡ Gen 22:16-18Gen 22:9-12Jhn 8:39Mat 12:37Rom 4:16Act 7:2Isa 51:2Jas 2:18 +1222 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. ‡ 1Th 1:3Heb 11:17-191Jn 2:5Gal 5:61Jn 4:17-18Jas 2:18 23 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” ⁵ and he was called the friend of God. ‡ Gen 15:6Isa 41:82Ch 20:7Gal 3:6Rom 4:22-24Exo 33:11Rom 4:3-6Jhn 15:13-15 +1224 You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. ‡ Jas 2:15-18Jas 2:21-22Psa 60:12 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? ‡ Heb 11:31Jos 6:22-25Jos 2:19-21Jos 2:15Jos 2:4Jos 2:1Jos 6:17Mat 1:5 +426 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. ‡ Jas 2:20Jas 2:17Jas 2:14Ecc 12:7Act 7:59-60Job 34:14-15Psa 104:29Luk 23:46 +2