¹ My brethren, do° not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, in favoritisms.

² For$ if a man should enter into your° congregation with a gold ring, in bright apparel and if a poor person in filthy apparel also should enter,

³ you° might look upon the one wearing the bright apparel and might say to him, You, sit here in the good seat; and you° might say to the poor person, You, stand there or sit here under my footstool.

⁴ And have you° not made distinction among yourselves and then became judges from evil reasonings?

⁵ Listen°, my beloved brethren. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to the ones who love$ him?

⁶ But you° dishonored the poor. Are the rich not oppressing you°? And are they themselves not dragging you° into the courts?

⁷ Are they themselves not blaspheming the good name, the name which was surnamed upon you°? {Act 11:26}

⁸ Nevertheless, if you° complete the royal law according-to the Scripture, ‘You will love$ your neighbor like yourself,’ you° are doing$ well. {Lev 19:18}

⁹ But if you° are showing-favoritism, you° are working sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰ For$ whoever will be keeping the whole law and but yet will trip in one point, he has become liable to all of it.

¹¹ For$ he who said, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘Do not murder.’ {Exo 20:13-14, Deu 5:17-18} But if you will not commit adultery, but yet you will commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

¹² Speak° so and practice° so, as one being about to be judged through the law of freedom.

¹³ For$ the judgment is merciless to the one who did not practice mercy; mercy wins over judgment.

¹⁴ My brethren, what is the profit, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Is the faith able to save him?

¹⁵ But if a brother or sister is naked and may be deficient of their daily nourishment,

¹⁶ and anyone out-of you° may say to them, Proceed-away° in peace. Be° warmed and be° fully-fed, but do° not give to them the requirements of the body, what is the profit?

¹⁷ So also the faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.

¹⁸ But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith away from your works. I will also show you my faith from my works.

¹⁹ You believe that God is one; you are doing$ well. The demons also believe and they are shuddering.

²⁰ But O vain man, are you willing to know that the faith is dead without works?

²¹ Was not Abraham our father made righteous from works when he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² Do you see that the faith was working together-with his works and his faith was completed from his works?

²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled the one which says, ‘And Abraham believed God and it was counted to him $for righteousness,’ and he was called the friend of God. {Gen 15:6}

²⁴ Now-then, are you° seeing that a man is made righteous from works and not from faith only?

²⁵ Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also made righteous from works, after she accepted the messengers and put them forth a different way? {Jos 2:1, 6:17, 23}

²⁶ For$ just-like the body without a spirit is dead, so the faith without works is also dead.