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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 BLB</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</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="/berean/james/2.htm" width="100%" height="32" 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">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Warning against Favoritism</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My brothers, do not with partiality hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For if a man might come into your assembly in splendid apparel with gold rings, and a poor <i>man</i> in shabby apparel also might come in, <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and you should look upon the <i>one</i> wearing the splendid apparel and should say, “You sit here honorably,” and to the poor should say, “You stand,” or, “Sit there under my footstool,” <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>then have you not made a distinction among yourselves and have become judges <i>with</i> evil thoughts? </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor in this world <i>to be</i> rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He promised to those loving Him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich oppressing you and they dragging you into court? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Are they not blaspheming the good Name having been called upon you? </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If indeed you keep <i>the</i> royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Leviticus 19:18">a</a></span> you are doing well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But if you show partiality, you are committing sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For whoever shall keep the whole Law, but shall stumble in one <i>point</i>, he has become guilty of all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the <i>One</i> having said, “You shall not commit adultery,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18">b</a></span> also said, “You shall not murder.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fnc" title="Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17">c</a></span> But if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of <i>the</i> Law. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So speak and so act as being about to be judged by <i>the</i> Law of freedom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For judgment without mercy <i>will be</i> to the <i>one</i> not having shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. </p><p class="hdg">Faith and Works<br /><span class="cross">(Genesis 15:1-7; Romans 4:1-12; Galatians 3:1-9; Hebrews 11:8-19)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What <i>is</i> the profit, my brothers, if anyone says to have faith, but has no works? Is the faith able to save him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now if a brother or a sister is without clothes and lacking of daily food, <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and anyone out from you says to them, “Go in peace; be warmed and be filled,” but does not give to them the needful things for the body, what <i>is</i> the profit? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So also, faith by itself if it has not works, is dead. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You believe that God is one. You are doing well! Even the demons believe <i>that</i>, and shudder! </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But do you want to come to know, O foolish man, that faith apart from works is worthless?<span class="fn"><a href="#fnd" title="BYZ and TR ‘dead’">d</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having offered his son Isaac upon the altar? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You see that <i>his</i> faith was working with his works, and by <i>his</i> works, <i>his</i> faith was perfected. <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 counted to him for righteousness,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fne" title="Genesis 15:6">e</a></span> and he was called a friend of God. <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 by faith alone. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, having received the messengers and having sent <i>them</i> forth by another way? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For just as the body apart from spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnote">Leviticus 19:18</span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnote">Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18</span><br /><A name="fnc"></a><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnote">Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17</span><br /><A name="fnd"></a><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnote">BYZ and TR <i>dead</i></span><br /><A name="fne"></a><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnote">Genesis 15:6</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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