\subsection{James 2}
\VS{1} My brothers, do not hold the belief of the Lord of us, Jesus Christ of 
glory, in respect-of-persons. 
\VS{2} For if [a] man come into your synagogue 
with [a] gold ring in splendid clothing, and also [a] poor [one] come in shabby 
clothing, 
\VS{3} you look upon the [one] wearing the splendid clothing and say: 
You be sitting rightly here, and to the poor [one] you say: You stand here or sit 
by my footstool. 
\VS{4} You should not discriminate in yourselves and become 
judges from wicked\fnPoneros{} reasonings. 
\VS{5} Listen, my agape-beloved brothers. God 
chose the poor of the world, rich in belief and heirs of the kingdom which 
was promised to those agape-loving him. 
\VS{6} But you dishonored the poor. 
Don't the rich oppress us and they themselves impel us into law-court? 
\VS{7} Don't they themselves slander the beautiful name of the [one] having 
called upon us? 
\VS{8} Indeed you perform [the] supreme law according to the 
scriptures: Agape-love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. 
\VS{9} But if 
you have favoritism, you work sin, being reproved by the law as [a] 
transgressor. 
\VS{10} For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one, 
he has become guilty of all. 
\VS{11} For the [one] having said, Do not commit 
adultery, also said, Do not murder. If you do not commit adultery, but 
murder, you have become [a] transgressor of [the] law. 
\VS{12} So be speaking and so 
be doing as through [the] law of freedom [You are] [about] to be being judged. 
\VS{13} For the 
judgment [is] merciless to those not having done mercy: Mercy exults over 
judgment. 

\VS{14} What [is] the advantage, my brothers, if someone be saying to be having 
faith but is not having works? 
\VS{15} Is [his] faith able to save 
him?\footnote{grammer indicates ``no'' answer expected or expresses 
uncertainty} If [a] brother or sister being at hand [is] naked and lacking daily 
food, 
\VS{16} but to them someone from [among] you say: Depart in peace, be being 
warmed and be being filled, but you do not give to them the necessities of 
the body, what is the advantage? 
\VS{17} And faith in this manner, if not 
having works, is dead according to itself. 
\VS{18} But someone will say, You 
have faith, but I have works; show to me your faith without works, but I 
will show you by my works [my] faith. 
\VS{19} You believe that God is one? You 
do well. The demons also believe and shudder. 
\VS{20} But you wish to know, 
O empty [man], that faith without works is worthless\footnote{``worthless'': B; 
``dead'' \sinaiticus{}\koine{}; ``empty'': \papyrus{74} }? Wasn't our father Abraham justified 
by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 
\VS{22} You see that 
faith was working with his works, and by the works was faith completed. 
\VS{23} And the scripture was fulfilled which says: Abraham believed God, 
and it was counted to him for justice, and he was called the philia-[friend] of God. 
\VS{24} See that by works [a] man is justified and not be faith alone. 
\VS{25} 
Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, receiving the 
messengers as guests and having sent [them] by another road? 
\VS{26} For just as 
the body without the spirit is dead, likewise also faith without works is 
dead.
