Douay Rheims Original ↷
James 2 📜 📕 ↷
A Warning against Favoritism
1 MY brethren, Have not the faith of our Lord JESUS Christ of glory in acception of persons.📜💬📚
2 For if there shall enter into your assembly a man having a golden ring in goodly apparel, and there shall enter in a poor man in homely attire,📜💬📚
3 and you have respect to him that is clothed with the goodly apparel, and shall say to him, Sit thou here well: but say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my foot-stool:📜💬📚
4 do you not judge with your selves, and are become judges of unjust cogitations?📜💬📚
5 Hear, my dearest brethren: hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?📜💬📚
6 But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might: and themselves draw you to judgements?📜💬📚
7 Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invocated upon you?📜💬📚
8 If not-withstanding you fulfill the royal law according to the Scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, you do well:📜💬📚
9 but if you accept persons, you work sin, reproved of the Law as transgressors.📜💬📚
10 And whosoever shall keep the whole Law, but offendeth in one, is made guilty of all.📜💬📚
11 For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. And if thou do not commit adultery, but shall kill; thou art made a transgressor of the Law.📜💬📚
12 So speak ye, and so do, as beginning to be judged by the law of liberty.📜💬📚
13 For judgement without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth it-self above judgement.📜💬📚
Faith and Works
14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?📜💬📚
15 And if a brother or sister be naked, and lack daily food,📜💬📚
16 and one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but you give them not the things that are necessary for the body; what shall it profit?📜💬📚
17 So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in it-self.📜💬📚
18 But some man saith, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee by works my faith.📜💬📚
19 Thou believest that there is one God. Thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble.📜💬📚
20 But wilt thou know, o vain man, that faith without works is idle?📜💬📚
21 Abraham our father, was he not justified by works, offering Isaac his son upon the altar?📜💬📚
22 Seest thou that faith did work with his works: and by the works the faith was consummate?📜💬📚
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled, saying, Abraham believed God, and it was reputed him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.📜💬📚
24 Do you see that by works a man is justified; & not by faith only?📜💬📚
25 And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and putting them forth another way?📜💬📚
26 For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.📜💬📚
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