1My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respecter of faces. 2For if there comes a gold-fingered man in fancy clothing into your assembly, and if there also comes in a poor man in shabby clothing, 3and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool; 4Did you not make a difference among yourselves and became judges [with] evil thoughts? 5Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him? 6But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? 7Do they not blaspheme that worthy Name by which you are called? 8If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. 9But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all. 11For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. But if you do not commit adultery, yet if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12So speak and do as those who shall be judged by [the] law of liberty. 13For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment. 14My brothers, what profit [is it] if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him? 15If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16and if one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them those things which are needful to the body, what good [is it] ? 17Even so, if it does not have works, faith is dead, being by itself. 18But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith from my works. 19You believe that there is one God, you do well; even the demons believe and tremble. 20But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22Do you see how faith worked with his works, and from the works faith was made complete? 23And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God. 24You see then how a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she had received the messengers and had [sent] them out another way? 26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.