¹My brothers, hold not the trust of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One of glory with partiality.

²For if there shall come into your assembly a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and there may come in also a poor man in shabby apparel,

³and you may look upon the one who wears the splendid apparel and may say to him, "You yourself sit here honorably," and may say to the poor, "You yourself stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

⁴were you not discriminated among yourselves, and have you become judges with evil thoughts?

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in trust and heirs of the kingdom that He promised to those loving Him?

⁶However, you yourselves dishonored the poor. Surely the rich are oppressing you, and they themselves dragging you into court?

⁷Surely they themselves are denigrating the good Name which having been called upon you?

⁸Indeed, if you keep the royal law according to the Scripture, "You will love your neighbour as yourself," you are doing well;

⁹however, if you show partiality, you are committing sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰For whoever keeps all the law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

¹¹For He having said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not murder." However, if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

¹²Thus speak and so act, as being about to be judged through the law of freedom.

¹³For judgment without mercy will be to the one not having shown compassion; and compassion triumphs over judgment.

¹⁴What is the profit, my brothers, if anyone shall say to have trust, however he may not have works? Surely the trust is not able to rescue him?

¹⁵Now if a brother or a sister shall be without clothes and they may be lacking of daily food,

¹⁶and anyone of you says to them, "Go in wholeness, be warmed and be filled," however does not give to them the needful things for the body, what is the profit?

¹⁷So also the trust, unless it shall have works, is dead by itself.

¹⁸But someone will say, "You yourself have trust, and I myself have works"; show me your trust without your works, and I myself will show you my trust by my works.

¹⁹You yourself trust that God is one; you are doing well! Even the demons trust that, and shudder!

²⁰However, do you want to come to know, O foolish man, that the trust apart from the works is worthless?

²¹Abraham our father, was he not justified by works, having offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

²²Do you see that his trust was working with his works, and by his works his trust was perfected?

²³And the Scripture was fulfilled which is saying, "Then Abraham trusted in God, and it was counted to him for righteousness," and a dear one of God he was called.

²⁴Therefore you see that by works a man is justified, and not by trust alone.

²⁵Then likewise also Rahab the prostitute, was she not justified by works, having received the messengers and having sent them forth by another way?

²⁶Just as for the body apart from spirit is dead, so also the trust apart from the works is dead.