| 2:1 | My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with partiality. |
| 2:2 | For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, |
| 2:3 | and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You sit here in a good place," and say to the poor man, "You stand there," or, "Sit here at my footstool," |
| 2:4 | have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? |
| 2:5 | Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? |
| 2:6 | But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? |
| 2:7 | Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? |
| 2:8 | If you really fulfill [the] royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; |
| 2:9 | but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. |
| 2:10 | For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is guilty of all. |
| 2:11 | For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. |
| 2:12 | So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. |
| 2:13 | For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. |
| 2:14 | What [does it] profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? |
| 2:15 | If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, |
| 2:16 | and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what [does it] profit? |
| 2:17 | Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. |
| 2:18 | But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. |
| 2:19 | You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believeand tremble! |
| 2:20 | But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? |
| 2:21 | Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? |
| 2:22 | Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? |
| 2:23 | And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. |
| 2:24 | You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. |
| 2:25 | Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent [them] out another way? |
| 2:26 | For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. |
James 2 - New King James Version
