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\subsection{James 2}
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\VS{1} My brothers, do not hold the belief of the Lord of us, Jesus Christ of
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glory, in respect-of-persons.
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\VS{2} For if [a] man come into your synagogue
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with [a] gold ring in splendid clothing, and also [a] poor [one] come in shabby
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clothing,
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\VS{3} you look upon the [one] wearing the splendid clothing and say:
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You be sitting rightly here, and to the poor [one] you say: You stand here or sit
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by my footstool.
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\VS{4} You should not discriminate in yourselves and become
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judges from wicked\fnPoneros{} reasonings.
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\VS{5} Listen, my agape-beloved brothers. God
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chose the poor of the world, rich in belief and heirs of the kingdom which
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was promised to those agape-loving him.
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\VS{6} But you dishonored the poor.
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Don't the rich oppress us and they themselves impel us into law-court?
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\VS{7} Don't they themselves slander the beautiful name of the [one] having
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called upon us?
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\VS{8} Indeed you perform [the] supreme law according to the
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scriptures: Agape-love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.
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\VS{9} But if
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you have favoritism, you work sin, being reproved by the law as [a]
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transgressor.
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\VS{10} For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one,
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he has become guilty of all.
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\VS{11} For the [one] having said, Do not commit
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adultery, also said, Do not murder. If you do not commit adultery, but
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murder, you have become [a] transgressor of [the] law.
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\VS{12} So be speaking and so
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be doing as through [the] law of freedom [You are] [about] to be being judged.
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\VS{13} For the
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judgment [is] merciless to those not having done mercy: Mercy exults over
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judgment.
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\VS{14} What [is] the advantage, my brothers, if someone be saying to be having
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faith but is not having works?
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\VS{15} Is [his] faith able to save
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him?\footnote{grammer indicates ``no'' answer expected or expresses
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uncertainty} If [a] brother or sister being at hand [is] naked and lacking daily
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food,
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\VS{16} but to them someone from [among] you say: Depart in peace, be being
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warmed and be being filled, but you do not give to them the necessities of
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the body, what is the advantage?
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\VS{17} And faith in this manner, if not
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having works, is dead according to itself.
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\VS{18} But someone will say, You
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have faith, but I have works; show to me your faith without works, but I
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will show you by my works [my] faith.
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\VS{19} You believe that God is one? You
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do well. The demons also believe and shudder.
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\VS{20} But you wish to know,
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O empty [man], that faith without works is worthless\footnote{``worthless'': B;
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``dead'' \sinaiticus{}\koine{}; ``empty'': \papyrus{74} }? Wasn't our father Abraham justified
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by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
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\VS{22} You see that
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faith was working with his works, and by the works was faith completed.
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\VS{23} And the scripture was fulfilled which says: Abraham believed God,
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and it was counted to him for justice, and he was called the philia-[friend] of God.
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\VS{24} See that by works [a] man is justified and not be faith alone.
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\VS{25}
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Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, receiving the
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messengers as guests and having sent [them] by another road?
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\VS{26} For just as
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the body without the spirit is dead, likewise also faith without works is
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dead.
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