The Koine Bible

My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the glory with partiality.

For if a man with a gold ring in bright clothing enters your assembly, and a poor man in dirty clothing also enters,

But you look at the one wearing the fine clothes and say, You sit here well, and to the poor you say, You stand or sit there under my footstool,

Have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and do they not drag you into courts?

Do they not blaspheme the good name that has been called upon you?

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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

For the one who said Do not commit adultery also said Do not murder; but if you do not commit adultery and you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

What benefit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?

If a brother or sister is naked and lacking the daily food,

But if someone says to them from you, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but does not give them the necessities of the body, what benefit is that?

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.

But someone will say, You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith from my works.

You believe that there is one God; you do well. Even the demons believe and shudder.

Do you want to know, empty person, that faith without works is inactive?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that faith worked together with his works, and from the works faith was made complete,

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.

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was not justified by works only, receiving the messengers and sending them out by another way.

For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.