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James 2 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
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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