Thematic Bible
James 2:1 (show verse)
My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
James 2:2 (show verse)
For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.
James 2:3 (show verse)
If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and 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 (show verse)
haven’t you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:5 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
James 2:7 (show verse)
Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?
James 2:8 (show verse)
Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.
James 2:9 (show verse)
But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 2:10 (show verse)
For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.
James 2:11 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.
James 2:13 (show verse)
For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:14 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food
James 2:16 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.
James 2:18 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe—and they shudder.
James 2:20 (show verse)
Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
James 2:21 (show verse)
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22 (show verse)
You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected.
James 2:23 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
James 2:25 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.