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¹ My brethren, do not, with respect for persons, be holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.² For, if there enter into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings in gay clothing, and there enter a destitute man also, in soiled clothing, - ³ And ye eye him that hath on the gay clothing, and say, Thou, be sitting here, pleasantly, - and, unto the destitute man, say - Thou, stand, or sit there under my footstool,⁴ Would ye not have been led to make distinctions among yourselves, and have become judges with wicked reasonings?⁵ Hearken! my brethren beloved: - Hath not, God, chosen the destitute in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?⁷ Do not, they, defame the noble name which hath been invoked upon you?

⁸ If ye are, indeed, fulfilling, a royal law, according to the scripture - Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, nobly, are ye doing;⁹ But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors!¹⁰ For, a man who shall keep, the whole law, but shall stumble in one thing, hath become, for all things, liable, - ¹¹ For, he that hath said - Do not commit adultery, hath also said - Do not commit murder, - now, if thou dost not commit adultery, but dost commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law.¹² So, be speaking, and, so, doing, as they who, through means of a law of freedom, are about to be judged;¹³ For, the judgment, will be without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

¹⁴ What profit, my brethren, - if one should be saying he hath, faith, but hath not, works; can his faith save him?¹⁵ If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,¹⁶ And one from among you should say unto them - Withdraw in peace, be getting warmed and fed, but should not give them the things needful for the body, What the profit?¹⁷ So, also, faith, if it have not works, is dead, by itself.¹⁸ But one will say, - Thou, hast faith, and, I, have works, show me thy faith apart from thy works, and, I, unto thee, will shew, by my works, my faith.¹⁹ Thou believest that God is, one: thou doest, well - Even the demons believe, and shudder!²⁰ But art thou willing to learn, O empty man! that, faith, apart from works, is, idle?²¹ Abraham our father, was it not, by works, he was declared righteous - when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?²² Thou seest that, his faith, had been working together with his works, and by his works did his faith become full-grown, - ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled which saith - And Abraham believed God, And it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and, God's friend, was he called:²⁴ Ye see that - by works, a man is declared righteous, and not by faith alone.²⁵ And, in like manner also, Rahab the harlot, Was it not, by works, she was declared righteous, when she gave welcome unto the messengers, and, by another way, urged them forth?²⁶ Just as, the body, apart from spirit, is dead, so, our faith also, apart from works, is dead.