¹ My brethren, do not, with respect for persons, be holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory.

² For, if there enter into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings in gay clothing, and there enter a destitute man also, in soiled clothing,—

³ And ye eye him that hath on the gay clothing, and say, Thou, be sitting here, pleasantly,—and, unto the destitute man, say—Thou, stand, or sit there under my footstool,

⁴ Would ye not have been led to make distinctions among yourselves, and have become judges with wicked reasonings?

⁵ Hearken! my brethren beloved:—Hath not, God, chosen the destitute in the world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?

⁷ Do not, they, defame the noble name which hath been invoked upon you?

⁸ If ye are, indeed, fulfilling, a royal law, according to the scripture—Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, nobly, are ye doing;

⁹ But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors!

¹⁰ For, a man who shall keep, the whole law, but shall stumble in one thing, hath become, for all things, liable,—

¹¹ For, he that hath said—Do not commit adultery, hath also said—Do not commit murder,—now, if thou dost not commit adultery, but dost commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law.

¹² So, be speaking, and, so, doing, as they who, through means of a law of freedom, are about to be judged;

¹³ For, the judgment, [will be] without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

¹⁴ What profit, my brethren,—if one should be saying he hath, faith, but hath not, works; can his faith save him?

¹⁵ If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,

¹⁶ And one from among you should say unto them—Withdraw in peace, be getting warmed and fed, but should not give them the things needful for the body, What the profit?

¹⁷ So, also, faith, if it have not works, is dead, by itself.

¹⁸ But one will say,—Thou, hast faith, and, I, have works, show me thy faith apart from thy works, and, I, unto thee, will shew, by my works, my faith.

¹⁹ Thou believest that God is, one: thou doest, well—Even the demons believe, and shudder!

²⁰ But art thou willing to learn, O empty man! that, faith, apart from works, is, idle?

²¹ Abraham our father, was it not, by works, he was declared righteous—when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² Thou seest that, his faith, had been working together with his works, and by his works did his faith become full-grown,—

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled which saith—And Abraham believed God, And it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and, God’s friend, was he called:

²⁴ Ye see that—by works, a man is declared righteous, and not by faith alone.

²⁵ And, in like manner also, Rahab the harlot, Was it not, by works, she was declared righteous, when she gave welcome unto the messengers, and, by another way, urged them forth?

²⁶ Just as, the body, apart from spirit, is dead, so, our faith also, apart from works, is dead.