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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>James 2 Godbey New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/james/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/james/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Godbey New Testament</a> > James 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../james/1.htm" title="James 1">◄</a> James 2 <a href="../james/3.htm" title="James 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Godbey New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/james/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Warning against Favoritism<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect to persons. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For if a gold-ringed man may come into your synagogue, in shining apparel, and a poor man may also come in with soiled clothing; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and you may look upon the one wearing the shining garment, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and may say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit down beneath my footstool: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings? <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love? <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich domineer over you, and drag you into courts? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Do they not blaspheme the good name which has been called upon you?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If indeed you keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself, you do well. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For whosoever may keep the whole law, and fail in one item, has become guilty of all. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the one saying, Thou shalt not commit adultery also said, Thou shalt not murder; but if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So you say, and so you do, as about to be condemned by the law of liberty. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For judgment is without mercy to him that shows no mercy; but mercy glorieth against judgment.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Faith and Works<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../galatians/3.htm">Galatians 3:1–9</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But what is it profitable, my brethren, if one may say he has faith, but has not works? whether is faith able to save him? <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of daily food, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So indeed faith, if it may not have works, is dead, as to itself.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But one will say, You have faith, and I have works: Show me your faith apart from works, and I will show you my faith by my works. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do you believe that there is one God? you do well: the demons also believe and tremble. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having offered up his son Isaac on the altar? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works the faith was made perfect; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and the scripture was fulfilled, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You see that a man is justified by works, and not only by faith. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, having received the spies, and sent them out by another way? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith also apart from works is dead.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Godbey New Testament (1902)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../james/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="James 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="James 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../james/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="James 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="James 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>