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1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Je­sus Christ, the Lord of glo­ry, with re­spect of per­sons. 2 For if there come unto your as­sem­bly a man with a gold ring, in good­ly ap­par­el, and there come in also a poor man in vile rai­ment; 3 And ye have re­spect to him that weareth the gay cloth­ing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here un­der my foot­stool: 4 Are ye not then par­tial in your­selves, and are be­come judges of evil thoughts? 5 Hear­ken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God cho­sen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king­dom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have de­spised the poor. Do not rich men op­press you, and draw you be­fore the judg­ment seats? 7 Do not they blas­pheme that wor­thy name by the which ye are called? 8 If ye ful­fil the roy­al law ac­cord­ing to the scrip­ture, Thou shalt love thy neigh­bour as thy­self, ye do well: 9 But if ye have re­spect to per­sons, ye com­mit sin, and are con­vinced of the law as trans­gres­sors. 10 For whoso­ev­er shall keep the whole law, and yet of­fend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not com­mit adul­tery, said al­so, Do not kill. Now if thou com­mit no adul­tery, yet if thou kill, thou art be­come a trans­gres­sor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of lib­er­ty. 13 For he shall have judg­ment with­out mer­cy, that hath shewed no mer­cy; and mer­cy re­joiceth against judg­ment. 14 What ­doth it prof­it, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a broth­er or sis­ter be naked, and des­ti­tute of dai­ly food, 16 And one of you say unto them, De­part in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwith­stand­ing ye give them not those things which are need­ful to the body; what ­doth it prof­it? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, be­ing alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith with­out thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 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 dead? 21 Was not Abra­ham our fa­ther jus­ti­fied by works, when he had of­fered Isaac his son upon the al­tar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made per­fect? 23 And the scrip­ture was ful­filled which saith, Abra­ham be­lieved God, and it was im­put­ed unto him for righ­teous­ness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is jus­ti­fied, and not by faith on­ly. 25 Like­wise also was not Ra­hab the har­lot jus­ti­fied by works, when she had re­ceived the mes­sen­gers, and had sent them out an­oth­er way? 26 For as the body with­out the spir­it is dead, so faith with­out works is dead al­so.