James 2

1My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.Cross-references: Lev 19:15 · Deut 1:17 · Deut 16:19 · 2Chr 19:7 · Ps 24:7 · Prov 24:23 · +19 more

2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,Cross-references: Gen 27:15 · Esth 3:10 · Esth 8:2 · Isa 64:6 · Zech 3:3 · Matt 11:8 · +1 more

3and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”Cross-references: Isa 65:5 · Luke 7:44 · 2Cor 8:9 · James 2:6 · Jude 1:16

4haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?Cross-references: Job 21:27 · Job 34:19 · Ps 58:1 · Ps 82:2 · Ps 109:31 · Mal 2:9 · +4 more

5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?Cross-references: Ex 20:6 · Judg 9:7 · 1Sam 2:30 · 1Ki 22:28 · Job 34:10 · Job 34:19 · +45 more

6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?Cross-references: 1Ki 21:11 · Job 20:19 · Ps 10:2 · Ps 10:8 · Ps 10:10 · Ps 10:14 · +30 more

7Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?Cross-references: Ps 73:7 · Ps 111:9 · Song 1:3 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 65:15 · +14 more

8However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.Cross-references: Lev 19:18 · Lev 19:34 · 1Ki 8:18 · 2Ki 7:9 · Jonah 4:4 · Jonah 4:9 · +14 more

9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.Cross-references: Lev 19:15 · John 8:9 · John 8:46 · John 16:8 · Rom 3:20 · Rom 7:7 · +5 more

10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.Cross-references: Deut 27:26 · Matt 5:18 · Gal 3:10

11For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.Cross-references: Ex 20:13 · Lev 4:2 · Lev 4:13 · Lev 4:22 · Deut 5:17 · Ps 130:3 · +5 more

12So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.Cross-references: Phil 4:8 · Col 3:17 · James 1:25 · James 2:8 · 2Pet 1:4

13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.Cross-references: Gen 42:21 · Judg 1:7 · Job 22:6 · Ps 18:25 · Ps 85:10 · Prov 21:13 · +16 more

14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?Cross-references: Jer 7:8 · Matt 5:20 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 7:26 · Luke 6:49 · Acts 8:13 · +23 more

15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,Cross-references: Job 31:16 · Isa 58:7 · Isa 58:10 · Ezek 18:7 · Matt 25:35 · Mark 14:7 · +4 more

16and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?Cross-references: Job 22:7 · Prov 3:27 · Matt 14:15 · Matt 15:32 · Matt 25:42 · Rom 12:9 · +2 more

17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.Cross-references: 1Cor 13:3 · 1Cor 13:13 · 1Thess 1:3 · 1Tim 1:5 · James 2:14 · James 2:19 · +2 more

18Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.Cross-references: Matt 7:16 · Rom 3:28 · Rom 4:6 · Rom 8:1 · Rom 14:23 · 1Cor 13:2 · +13 more

19You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.Cross-references: Deut 6:4 · Isa 43:10 · Isa 44:6 · Isa 44:8 · Isa 45:6 · Isa 45:21 · +25 more

20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?Cross-references: Job 11:11 · Ps 94:8 · Prov 12:11 · Jer 2:5 · Rom 1:21 · 1Cor 15:35 · +8 more

21Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?Cross-references: Gen 22:9 · Gen 22:16 · Josh 24:3 · Ps 143:2 · Isa 51:2 · Matt 3:9 · +14 more

22You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.Cross-references: Gal 5:6 · 1Thess 1:3 · Heb 11:17 · James 2:18 · 1John 2:5 · 1John 4:17

23So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.Cross-references: Gen 15:6 · Ex 33:11 · 2Chr 20:7 · Job 16:21 · Isa 41:8 · Mark 12:10 · +14 more

24You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.Cross-references: Ps 60:12 · James 2:15 · James 2:21

25In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?Cross-references: Josh 2:1 · Josh 2:4 · Josh 2:6 · Josh 2:15 · Josh 2:19 · Josh 6:17 · +6 more

26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.Cross-references: Job 34:14 · Ps 104:29 · Ps 146:4 · Eccl 12:7 · Isa 2:22 · Luke 23:46 · +4 more