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The Sin of Partiality

My brothers and sisters, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. Lev 19:15For if a man comes into your (a)2:2 Or synagogueassembly with a gold ring and is dressed in bright clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes in, and you (b)2:3 Lit look atpay special attention to the one who is wearing the bright clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil (c)2:4 Lit reasoningsmotives? Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: did God not choose the poor (d)2:5 Lit to theof this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? Exo 20:6; Mat 5:3But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and (e)2:6 Lit they themselvespersonally drag you into (f)2:6 Lit courtscourt? Do they not blaspheme the good name (g)2:7 Lit which has been called upon youby which you have been called?

If, however, you are fulfilling the (h)2:8 Or law of our Kingroyal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. Lev 19:18; Mat 5:43But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators. Lev 19:15For whoever keeps the whole Law, yet stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all. Mat 5:19For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do murder, you have become a violator of the Law. Exo 20:13; Mat 19:18So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy (i)2:13 Lit boasts againsttriumphs over judgment.Pro 21:13; Mat 6:15

Faith and Works

What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can (j)2:14 Lit thethat faith save him? Mat 7:26If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, Luk 3:11; 1Jn 3:17and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, (k)2:16 Or warm yourselves and fill yourselvesbe warmed and be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? In the same way, faith also, if it has no works, is (l)2:17 Or dead by its own standardsdead, being by itself.

But someone (m)2:18 Lit willmay well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” You believe that (n)2:19 One early ms there is one GodGod is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. Mrk 1:24; Mrk 12:29; Act 19:15But are you willing to acknowledge, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless? Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? Gen 22:9; Heb 11:17You see that faith was working with his works, and (o)2:22 Or by the deedsas a result of the works, faith was (p)2:22 Or completedperfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. Gen 15:6; 2Ch 20:7; Isa 41:8; Rom 4:3; Gal 3:6You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works also when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? Jos 2:1; Heb 11:31For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.