Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
My brothers
, as
you
hold out
your
faith
in our glorious
Lord Jesus Christ, do
not
show
favoritism.
My brethren
, hold not,
in respect
of
persons,
the
faith
of
the
glory
of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
Suppose
a
man
comes
into your meeting
wearing
a gold ring and
fine
clothes
, and a poor man in shabby
clothes
also
comes
in.
for
if
there
may
come
into your synagogue
a man
with
gold ring, in
gay
raiment,
and there
may
come
in
also
a poor man in vile
raiment,
If
you
lavish
attention
on
the man
in
fine
clothes
and say, “
Here is
a
seat
of
honor
, ”
but
say
to the poor man, “You
must
stand ”
or “
Sit at
my feet
, ”
and
ye
may
look
upon
him
bearing
the gay
raiment,
and may
say to
him
, `Thou
--
sit
thou
here well
, '
and
to the poor man may
say
, `Thou
--
stand thou
there,
or ,
Sit thou
here
under
my footstool
, '
--
have
you
not discriminated
among
yourselves and become judges with
evil
thoughts?
ye
did
not judge
fully
in
yourselves ,
and did
become ill-reasoning
judges .
Listen
, my beloved brothers:
Has
not God chosen
the poor of this world to
be
rich in faith and to
inherit
the kingdom
He promised those who
love
Him?
Hearken
, my brethren
beloved ,
did
not God choose
the poor of this world ,
rich in faith ,
and heirs
of
the reign
that
He promised to
those loving
Him?
But
you
have
dishonored
the poor .
Is
it
not the rich who
oppress you and drag
you into
court?
and
ye
did
dishonour
the poor one;
do
not the rich oppress you and themselves
draw
you to
judgment-seats;
Are
they not the
ones
who
blaspheme
the noble
name by
which
you
have
been
called?
do
they not themselves
speak
evil
of
the good
name that
was
called upon
you
?
If you
really
fulfill
the
royal law stated
in
Scripture
, “
Love your
neighbor
as yourself
, ”
you
are
doing
well .
If ,
indeed,
royal law ye
complete
, according
to
the
Writing,
`Thou
shalt
love thy
neighbour
as thyself
, '
--
ye
do
well ;
But
if you
show
favoritism
, you
sin and
are
convicted by the law as transgressors .
and
if ye
accept
persons
, sin ye
do
work,
being
convicted by the law as transgressors ;
Whoever keeps
the whole law but
stumbles
at
just
one point is
guilty of breaking
all of
it.
for
whoever the whole law shall
keep,
and
shall
stumble
in
one `
point ',
he
hath
become
guilty of all ;
For He who said
, “Do
not commit adultery, ”
also
said, “
Do not
murder .”
If you
do
not commit adultery, but
do
commit murder, you
have
become a lawbreaker.
for He who is
saying
, `Thou
mayest
not commit adultery, '
said also
, `Thou
mayest
do no
murder ;'
and
if thou
shalt
not commit adultery, and
shalt
commit murder, thou
hast
become a transgressor
of
law;
Speak and act
as those
who
are
going
to be judged by
the
law
that
gives
freedom.
so
speak ye
and so
do,
as about
by
a
law
of
liberty
to be judged ,
For judgment without mercy
will
be
shown
to anyone
who
has
not been
merciful.
Mercy
triumphs
over judgment.
for the
judgment without kindness
`is'
to him
not having
done
kindness,
and
exult
doth
kindness
over judgment.
What good
is it
, my brothers
, if someone
claims
to
have
faith, but
has
no
deeds
? Can
such
faith save him?
What `
is '
the
profit
, my brethren
, if faith, any
one
may
speak
of
having,
and
works
he
may
not
have
? is
that
faith able
to
save him?
Suppose
a brother or sister is
without
clothes
and daily food .
and
if
a brother or sister may
be
naked,
and may
be
destitute
of
the
daily food ,
If
one of you tells
him
, “Go
in peace ;
stay
warm
and well
fed
, ”
but
does
not provide
for his
physical
needs
, what good
is that
?
and
any
one of you may
say
to
them
, `Depart
ye
in peace ,
be
warmed,
and be
filled
, '
and
may
not give
to
them
the
things
needful
for the
body
, what `
is '
the
profit
?
So too,
faith by
itself
, if it does
not result
in
action
, is dead.
so also
the
faith, if it may
not have
works
, is dead by
itself
.
But someone
will
say, “You
have
faith and I have deeds.”
Show
me your
faith without
deeds
, and I will show
you
my faith
by
my deeds.
But say may
some
one
, Thou
hast
faith ,
and I have works,
shew
me thy
faith out
of
thy
works
, and I will shew
thee
out
of
my works
my faith:
You
believe that God is one .
Good
for
you!
Even
the demons believe that—
and shudder .
thou
--
thou
dost
believe that God is one ;
thou
dost
well,
and
the demons believe ,
and they
shudder !
O foolish
man, do
you
want
evidence
that faith without
deeds
is worthless
?
And
dost
thou
wish
to
know,
O vain
man, that the
faith apart
from
the
works
is dead
?
Was
not
our father Abraham
justified
by
what
he
did
when
he offered
his son Isaac
on
the altar?
Abraham
our father --
was
not
he declared
righteous
out
of
works,
having
brought
up
Isaac
his son upon
the altar?
You
see that his
faith was working with his actions
, and his
faith was perfected by
what
he
did.
dost
thou
see that the
faith was working with his works
, and out
of
the
works
the
faith was perfected ?
And the
Scripture
was
fulfilled that says
, “
Abraham believed
God, and it was credited
to him as
righteousness ,”
and he
was
called
a
friend of God.
and fulfilled was
the
Writing
that is
saying
, `And
Abraham did
believe
God, and it was reckoned
to him --
to
righteousness ;'
and ,
`
Friend of God '
he
was
called
.
As
you
can
see, a
man
is justified
by
his
deeds
and not by
faith alone.
Ye
see, then,
that
out
of
works
is man
declared
righteous,
and not out
of
faith only;
In the
same
way,
was
not
even
Rahab the prostitute
justified
by
her
actions
when
she welcomed
the spies
and sent
them
off
on
another route
?
and
in like
manner
also
Rahab the harlot
--
was
she not
out
of
works
declared
righteous,
having
received
the messengers,
and by
another way
having
sent
forth
?
As the body without
the spirit is dead, so faith without
deeds
is dead.
for
as the body apart
from
the spirit is dead, so also
the
faith apart
from
the
works
is dead.
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