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          DASV: James 2    

1 My brothers, do not show favoritism, if you possess faith in
our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
2 For if someone with a gold ring and fine clothing enters
your synagogue, and then a poor person comes in with ragged
clothing,
3 do you pay attention to the one wearing fine clothing, and
say, “Sit you here in a good place,” but say to the poor person,
“Stand over there,” or “Sit on the floor”?
4 Are you not discriminating among yourselves, and creating
prejudices with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my beloved brothers! Did not God choose the poor of
the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which
he promised to those who love him?
6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich the ones
who oppress you and drag you into court?
7 Do they not blaspheme the honorable name by which you were
called?
8 But if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin, being convicted
by the law as lawbreakers.
10 For whoever obeys the whole law, yet stumbles in one point,
is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do
not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you
are still a violator of the law.
12 So you must speak and live as those who will be judged by
the law of liberty.
13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no
mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims he has faith,
but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister lacks food or clothing,
16 and one of you say to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and be
fed,” and yet you do not give them either food or clothing,
what good is it?
17 Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
18 Someone 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.
19 You believe that God is one, great; even the demons believe
that and tremble.
20 But do you not know, O foolish one, that faith without
works is fruitless?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he
offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 You see that his faith combined with his works and by his
works faith was made complete.
23 The Scripture was fulfilled which said, “Abraham believed
God, and it was counted to him for righteous,” and he was
called God’s friend.
24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by
faith alone.
25 In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified
by works, when she was visited by messengers and sent them
out another way?
26 For as the body without spirit is dead, even so faith
without works is dead.

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