My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?

if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"

You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.

For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything.

My brothers, as you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Glory, pay no servile regard to people.

So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality?

You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!

Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him?

But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?

and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness ??he was called God's friend.

Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food;

Now you insult the poor. Is it not the rich who lord it over you and drag you to court?

Is it not they who scoff at the noble Name you bear?

but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression.

He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery but if you kill, you have transgressed the Law.

Suppose there comes into your meeting a man who wears gold rings and handsome clothes, and also a poor man in dirty clothes;

When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?

for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy ??whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment.

So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?

Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds,

if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?