Jakob 2 i ulike oversettelser
Text-Critical English
2:1
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My brothers, practice your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, without showing partiality.
2:2
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Suppose a man in fine clothing comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in.
2:3
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If you pay attention to the man who is wearing fine clothing and say to him, “Yoʋ sit here in a good place,” but you say to the poor man, “Yoʋ stand there, or sit here under my footstool,”
2:4
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have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
2:5
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Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
2:6
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But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Are they not the ones who drag you into court?
2:7
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Do they not blaspheme the good name by which you are called?
2:8
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If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor as yoʋrself,” you do well.
2:9
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But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10
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For whoever keeps the entire law but stumbles in one point has become guilty of it all.
2:11
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For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if yoʋ do not commit adultery but do commit murder, yoʋ have become a transgressor of the law.
2:12
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Speak and act as people who will be judged by the law of liberty.
2:13
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For judgment is without mercy to anyone who has not shown mercy; mercy is exalted over judgment.
2:14
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What is the benefit, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
2:15
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If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,
2:16
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and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them anything to address their physical needs, what is the benefit?
2:17
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In the same way faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
2:18
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But someone will say, “Yoʋ have faith, and I have works.” Show me yoʋr faith by yoʋr works, and I, by my works, will show yoʋ my faith.
2:19
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Do yoʋ believe that God is one? Yoʋ do well; even the demons believe—and shudder!
2:20
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Do yoʋ want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
2:21
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Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
2:22
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Do yoʋ see how faith was active along with his works, and by works his faith was brought to completion?
2:23
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And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
2:24
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You see then that a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone.
2:25
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In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
2:26
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For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.