The Letter from Ya`akov, Chapter 2
{2:1} My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Yeshua the
Messiah, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. {2:2} For if a
man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and
there come in also a poor man in filthy clothing; {2:3} and 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;" {2:4} haven't you shown partiality among
yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? {2:5} Listen, 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? {2:6} But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't
the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? {2:7}
Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? {2:8}
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. {2:9} But if
you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as
transgressors. {2:10} For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all. {2:11} For he who
said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now
if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a
transgressor of the law. {2:12} So speak, and so do, as men who are to
be judged by a law of freedom. {2:13} For judgment is without mercy to
him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
{2:14} What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but
has no works? Can that faith save him? {2:15} And if a brother or
sister is naked and in lack of daily food, {2:16} and one of you tells
them, "Go in shalom, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give
them the things the body needs, what good is it? {2:17} Even so faith,
if it has no works, is dead in itself. {2:18} Yes, a man will say,
"You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith from your
works, and I by my works will show you my faith. {2:19} You believe
that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
{2:20} But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works
is dead? {2:21} Wasn't Avraham, our father, justified by works, in
that he offered up Yitzchak his son on the altar? {2:22} You see that
faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; {2:23}
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Avraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the
friend of God. {2:24} You see then that by works, a man is justified,
and not only by faith. {2:25} In like manner wasn't Rachav the
prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the
messengers, and sent them out another way? {2:26} For as the body
apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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