The Letter from Ya`akov, Chapter 2
{2:1} My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Yeshua the
Messiah of glory with partiality. {2:2} For if a man with a gold ring,
in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy
clothing also comes in; {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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