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Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not drag you before the judgment-seats? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye were called?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," ye do well; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but, if ye show respect to persons, ye 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 keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one <i>point</i>, has become guilty of all. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For He Who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not kill." Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of <i>the</i> law. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over 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>What profit <i>is it</i>, my brethren, if anyone says he has faith, but has not works; can <i>such</i> faith save him? <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want 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 say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from <i>your</i> works, and I will show you <i>my</i> faith by <i>my</i> works. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder! <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless? <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, when he offered up Isaac his son 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 was faith perfected; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness"; and he was called "God's Friend." <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And, in like manner, was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, 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 <i>the</i> spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Worrell New Testament (1904)<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>