English Bible Presentation Sharing - James Book, chapter 2, verse 15 in Hcsb Version

James 2 : 1 (HCSB)

My brothers, hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without showing favoritism.

James 2 : 2 (HCSB)

For suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring, dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.

James 2 : 3 (HCSB)

If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes so that you say, "Sit here in a good place," and yet you say to the poor man, "Stand over there," or, "Sit here on the floor by my footstool,"

James 2 : 4 (HCSB)

haven't you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2 : 5 (HCSB)

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

James 2 : 6 (HCSB)

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

James 2 : 7 (HCSB)

Don't they blaspheme the noble name that you bear?

James 2 : 8 (HCSB)

If you really carry out the royal law prescribed in Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

James 2 : 9 (HCSB)

But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

James 2 : 10 (HCSB)

For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of *breaking it all.

James 2 : 11 (HCSB)

For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

James 2 : 12 (HCSB)

Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.

James 2 : 13 (HCSB)

For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2 : 14 (HCSB)

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

James 2 : 15 (HCSB)

If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food,

James 2 : 16 (HCSB)

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well," but you don't give them what the body needs, what good is it?

James 2 : 17 (HCSB)

In the same way faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead by itself.

James 2 : 18 (HCSB)

But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works.

James 2 : 19 (HCSB)

You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe-- and they shudder.

James 2 : 20 (HCSB)

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

James 2 : 21 (HCSB)

Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

James 2 : 22 (HCSB)

You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected.

James 2 : 23 (HCSB)

So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, and he was called God's friend.

James 2 : 24 (HCSB)

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

James 2 : 25 (HCSB)

And in the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by a different route?

James 2 : 26 (HCSB)

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.