m which he promised to those
who love him? [2:6] But you dishonor the poor. Do not the rich oppress
you and drag you to tribunals? [2:7]And do they not blaspheme the good
name by which you are called? [2:8]If you keep indeed the royal law
according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself,
you do well; [2:9]but if you respect persons, you commit sin, convicted
by the law as transgressors. [2:10]For whoever shall keep the whole
law, and offend in one point, is guilty of all. [2:11]For he that said,
You shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not kill; and if
you do not commit adultery, but kill, you are a transgressor of the
law. [2:12]So speak and so do, as being about to be judged by the law
of liberty. [2:13]For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows
not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.

7 [2:14]What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith,
but has not works? Can faith save him? [2:15]And if a brother or sister
is naked, or destitute of daily food, [2:16]and one of you says to
them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the
necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit? [2:17]So also
faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. [2:18]But some one
will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without
works, and I will show you my faith by works. [2:19]You believe that
there is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble.
[2:20]But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
[2:21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered
up Isaac his son on the altar? [2:22]You see that faith cooperated with
his works, and by works was faith made perfect, [2:23]and the Scripture
was fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God and it was accounted
to him a righteousness, and he was called God's friend. [2:24]You see
then that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. [2:25]And
in like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when
she received the messengers and sent them out another way? [2:26]For as
the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

CHAPTER II.

ON CENSORIOUSNESS, WISDOM, CONTENTION, ETC.

1 [3:1]BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall
receive a severer judgment. [3:2]For in many things we all offend; if
one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection
also the whole