What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?

and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool,"

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder!

For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one [point only] has become guilty of all [of it].

My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.

Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

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

have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

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

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

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

If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?

Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name {of the one to whom you belong}?

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For the one who said "Do not commit adultery" also said "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

For if someone enters into your assembly in fine clothing with a gold ring on his finger, and a poor person in filthy clothing also enters,

Was not Abraham our father justified by works [when he] offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works [when she] welcomed the messengers and sent [them] out by a different route?

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

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

and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?