Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Jam 2:1 |
My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. |
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Jam 2:2 |
For if a man comes into your [fn]assembly with a gold ring and dressed in [fn]fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, |
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Jam 2:3 |
and you [fn]pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool," |
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Jam 2:4 |
have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil [fn]motives? |
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Jam 2:5 |
Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor [fn]of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? |
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Jam 2:6 |
But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and [fn]personally drag you into [fn]court? |
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Jam 2:7 |
Do they not blaspheme the fair name [fn]by which you have been called? |
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Jam 2:8 |
If, however, you are fulfilling the [fn]royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well. |
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Jam 2:9 |
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the [fn]law as transgressors. |
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Jam 2:10 |
For whoever keeps the whole [fn]law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
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Jam 2:11 |
For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the [fn]law. |
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Jam 2:12 |
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. |
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Jam 2:13 |
For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy [fn]triumphs over judgment. |
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Jam 2:14 |
What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can [fn]that faith save him? |
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Jam 2:15 |
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, |
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Jam 2:16 |
and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, [fn]be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? |
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Jam 2:17 |
Even so faith, if it has no works, is [fn]dead, being by itself. |
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Jam 2:18 |
But someone [fn]may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." |
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Jam 2:19 |
You believe that [fn]God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. |
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Jam 2:20 |
But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? |
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Jam 2:21 |
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? |
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Jam 2:22 |
You see that faith was working with his works, and [fn]as a result of the works, faith was [fn]perfected; |
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Jam 2:23 |
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God. |
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Jam 2:24 |
You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. |
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Jam 2:25 |
In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? |
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Jam 2:26 |
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (2:2) Or, synagogue
- (2:2) Or, bright
- (2:3) Literally: look at
- (2:4) Literally: reasonings
- (2:5) Literally: to the
- (2:6) Literally: they themselves
- (2:6) Literally: courts
- (2:7) Literally: which has been called upon you
- (2:8) Or, law of our King
- (2:9) Or, Law
- (2:10) Or, Law
- (2:11) Or, Law
- (2:13) Literally: boasts against
- (2:14) Literally: the
- (2:16) Or, warm yourselves and fill yourselves
- (2:17) Or, dead by its own standards
- (2:18) Literally: will
- (2:19) One early ms reads there is one God
- (2:22) Or, by the deeds
- (2:22) Or, completed
