James 2:8-16

English Standard Version

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ^(A)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. ⁹ But if you ^(B)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point ^(C)has become guilty of all of it. ¹¹ For he who said, ^(D)“Do not commit adultery,” also said, ^(E)“Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. ¹² So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under ^(F)the law of liberty. ¹³ For ^(G)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Faith Without Works Is Dead

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith ^(H)but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ^15 (I)If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ^16 (J)and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good^[a] is that?