James 2
2:1My brethren, have no discrimination in the belief of our Lord Jesus Christ of the glory!
2:2For if a man should enter into your gathering wearing gold rings in bright attire, and there should enter also a poor man in filthy attire,
2:3and you should look unto the one wearing the bright attire, and should say to him, You sit down here, well! And to the poor man you should say, You stand there! or, Sit down here under my footstool!
2:4Then did you not discriminate among yourselves, and became judges of evil thoughts?
2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren! Did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in belief, and heirs of the kingdom of which he promised to the ones loving him?
2:6But you dishonored the poor. Do not the rich tyrannize over you, and they draw you to judgment seats?
2:7Do they not blaspheme the good name, the one you are called by?
2:8If however you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture -- You shall love your neighbor as yourself; you do well.
2:9But if you discriminate because of appearance, you practice sin, being reproved by the law as violators.
2:10For whoever shall give heed to the entire law, but shall be at fault in one thing, he has become liable of all.
2:11For the one having said, You shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not murder. But if you shall not commit adultery, but shall murder, you have become a violator of the law.
2:12So speak and so do as by the law of freedom! being about to be judged.
2:13For judgment is merciless to the one not having mercy, and mercy glories over judgment.
2:14What is the benefit, my brethren, if anyone should say to have belief, but should not have works? Shall the belief be able to deliver him?
2:15And if a brother or sister should be naked, and should be forsaken of the daily nourishment,
2:16and anyone among you should say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled! but does not give to them the things needful of the body, what is the benefit?
2:17So also the belief, if it should not have works it is dead by itself.
2:18But one shall say, You have belief, and I have works. Show to me the belief of yours from out of your works! and I will show to you from out of my works the belief of mine.
2:19You believe that God is one. You do well, even the demons believe and shudder.
2:20But you want to know, O vain man, that the belief separate from works is dead?
2:21Was not Abraham our Father justified by works, having offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22Do you see that the belief was working together with his works, and by the works the belief was perfected?
2:23And the scripture was fulfilled, the one saying, And Abraham believed in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness; and he was called friend of God.
2:24See therefore that by works a man is justified, and not by belief only!
2:25And in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not justified by works, welcoming the messengers and putting them out by another way?
2:26For as the body separate from spirit is dead, so also the belief separate from the works is dead.