19Or, do ye, in accepting persons, hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of the glory?
2: 2 For if there come into your 20synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;
20Or, assembly Compare Hb 10:25 (in Greek).
2: 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;
2: 4 21do ye not make distinctions 22among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
21Or, are ye not divided
22Or, in your own mind,
2: 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
2: 6 But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
2: 7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name 23by which ye are called?
23Gk. which was called upon you? See Ac 15:17.
2: 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, 24Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
24Lv 19:18.
2: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
2: 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.
2: 11 For he that said, 25Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
25Ex 20:13f.; Dt 5:17f.
2: 12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
2: 13 For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
2: 14 What is the profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
2: 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
2: 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what is the profit?
2: 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
2: 18 26Yes, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.
26Or, But some one will say,
2: 19 Thou believest that 27God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder.
27So p74Aℵ (1739 1241) ((322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss.)) cop vg arm. But B 1852 (C 1243 2344 33vid) and 23 others read there is one God; ψ almost alone reads God is;
2: 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is 28barren?
28So BC* 1739 1243 322 copsa vg. Aℵψ 1852 1241 2344 33 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copbo read dead? p74 virtually alone reads empty?
2: 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
2: 22 29Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;
29Or, Seest thou ... perfect?
2: 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And 30Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called 31the friend of God.
30Ge 15:6.
31Is 41:8; 2Chr 20:7.
2: 24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
2: 25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way:
2: 26 For as the body apart from the 32breath is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
32Or, spirit or, wind (Gk. pneuma, from which the English pneumatic implies wind force.)
