1 My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.
2 For if someone
3 and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, “Be seated here in a good place,” and to the poor person you say, “You stand there or be seated by my footstool,”
4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world
6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?
7 Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name
8 However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”
9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin,
10 For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one
11 For the one who said “Do not commit adultery”
12 Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For judgment
14 What
15 If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,
16 and one of you should say to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and
17 Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.”
19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder!
20 But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works
22 You see that faith was working together with his works, and by the works the faith was perfected.
23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,”
24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
25 And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works
26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.