James 2:21 - Prayer Tents

James 2

The Sin of Favoritism

2My brothers, hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without showing favoritism.G3450G80G2192G3361G4102G2257G2962G2424G5547G1391G1722G43822For suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring, dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.G1063G1437G1525G1519G5216G4864G435G5554G1722G2986G2066G1161G1525G2532G4434G1722G4508G20663If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes so that you 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,"G2532G1914G1909G5409G2986G2066G2532G2036G846G2521G4771G5602G2573G2532G2036G4434G2476G4771G1563G2228G2521G5602G5259G3450G52864haven't you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?G1252G3756G2532G1252G1722G1438G2532G1096G2923G4190G12615Listen, 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?G191G3450G27G80G1586G3756G2316G1586G4434G5127G2889G4145G1722G4102G2532G2818G932G3739G1861G25G8466Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?G1161G5210G818G4434G2616G3756G4145G2616G5216G2532G846G1670G5209G1519G29227Don't they blaspheme the noble name that you bear?G987G3756G846G987G2570G3686G1909G5209G19418If you really carry out the royal law prescribed in Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.G1487G3305G5055G937G3551G2596G1124G25G4675G4139G5613G4572G4160G25739But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.G1161G1487G4380G2038G266G1651G5259G3551G5613G384810For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of [breaking it] all.G1063G3748G5083G3650G3551G1161G4417G1722G1520G1096G1777G395611For 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.G1063G2036G3431G3361G3431G2036G2532G5407G3361G5407G1161G1487G3431G3756G3431G1161G5407G1096G3848G355112Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.G3779G2980G2532G3779G4160G5613G3195G2919G1223G3551G165713For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.G1063G2920G448G4160G3361G1656G2532G1656G2620G2920

Faith and Works

14What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Can his faith save him?G5101G3786G3450G80G1437G5100G3004G2192G4102G1161G2192G3361G2041G1410G3361G4102G4982G84615If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food,G1437G1161G80G2228G79G5225G1131G2532G3007G5600G2184G516016and 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?G1161G5100G1537G5216G2036G846G5217G1722G1515G2328G2532G5526G1161G1325G846G3361G2006G4983G5101G378617In the same way faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead by itself.G2532G3779G4102G3362G2192G3362G2041G2076G3498G2596G143818But 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.G235G5100G2046G4771G2192G4102G2504G2192G2041G1166G3427G4675G4102G1537G4675G2041G2504G1166G4671G3450G4102G1537G3450G204119You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe— and they shudder.G4771G4100G3754G2076G1520G2316G4160G2573G1140G2532G4100G2532G542520Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?G1161G2309G1097G5599G2756G444G3754G4102G5565G2041G2076G349821Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?G1344G3756G11G2257G3962G1344G1537G2041G399G2464G846G5207G1909G237922You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected.G991G3754G4102G4903G846G2041G2532G1537G2041G5048G4102G504823So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, and he was called God's friend.G2532G1124G4137G3004G1161G11G4100G2316G2532G3049G846G1519G1343G2532G2564G5384G231624You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.G3708G5106G3754G1537G2041G444G1344G2532G3756G1537G4102G344025And 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?G3668G1161G2532G1344G3756G4460G4204G1344G1537G2041G5264G32G2532G1544G2087G359826For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.G1063G5618G4983G5565G4151G2076G3498G3779G4102G5565G2041G2076G3498G2532