James 2

James 2:1

• My brothers,

• show
• show no

• favoritism as
• partiality as

• you hold the

• faith in
• faith of

• our

• glorious Lord
• Lord

• Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

James 2:2

• Suppose someone
• For if a man
• For if someone
• Suppose a man

• comes into your

• meeting
• assembly

• wearing a gold

• ring and
• rings and in

• fine
• dressed in fine

• clothes, and a poor

• man in
• person in

• shabby
• filthy
• dirty
• worn-out

• clothes
• clothing

• also

• comes in,
• comes in.
• comes in;
• comes.

James 2:3

• and you
• If you
• You

• show special

• attention to the one
• notice of the one

• wearing the
• wearing

• fine
• nice

• clothes and
• clothes, and
• clothes.
• clothing and
• clothing, and

• say, “

• Sit
• You sit

• here in a
• here in this

• good

• seat.” But
• seat for
• place,” and
• place”; and

• you

• say to the
• tell the

• poor

• man, “
• man, ‘
• person, “

• Stand
• Stand over

• there,’ or
• there,” or, “

• Sit on the floor by my

• feet.”
• feet!”
• feet,”
• feet.’
• feet”?
• footstool!”
• footstool’,
• footstool”;
• footstool,”

James 2:4

• have
• are
• Are

• you
• n’t

• not
• you

• made distinctions among
• discriminated among
• shown partiality among

• yourselves and
• yourselves, and

• become judges with evil

• thoughts?
• motives?
• motives.

James 2:5

• Listen, my

• dear
• beloved

• brothers!
• brothers,
• brothers.
• brothers:
• brothers and sisters:
• brothers and sisters!
• brothers and sisters.
• brethren.
• brethren:

• Did not
• did not
• Has not
• has not
• Didn’t

• God

• chosen those who are
• choose the
• chose the
• chosen the
• choose those who are

• poor in the
• poor in this
• poor of this
• poor people in the

• world to
• eyes of the world to
• things of this world to

• be rich in

• faith and
• faith, and
• faith, and to
• faith and to

• heirs of the
• inherit the
• receive the
• possess the

• Kingdom which
• kingdom which
• kingdom, which
• Kingdom, which
• kingdom
• Kingdom
• kingdom that

• He
• he
• God

• promised to those who
• has promised to those who

• love

• Him.
• him.
• Him?
• him?

James 2:6

• But you

• have
• show no

• dishonored the
• insulted the

• poor man!
• poor man.
• poor.
• poor!

• Do
• Are
• Is it
• Is

• not the
• n’t it the
• n’t the

• rich
• rich who

• oppress
• oppressing

• you and
• you, and

• drag
• personally drag

• you into
• you to
• you into the
• you before the
• you off to

• court?
• court.
• courts?
• judgment-seats?
• judgment-seats;

James 2:7

• Are
• Do
• Are they
• Is it

• n’t
• not

• they
• they the
• they who

• blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

James 2:8

• However, if
• If, however,

• you

• fulfill the
• keep the

• royal

• law
• law as

• found in

• scripture,
• Scripture, ‘
• Scripture, “
• Scripture,

• Love your neighbor as

• yourself,
• yourself,’
• yourself,”

• you are doing

• well.
• well;
• right.
• right;

James 2:9

• [Translation pending]

James 2:10

• For whoever keeps the

• whole
• entire

• law and
• law, and
• law
• law,

• yet

• stumbles in one
• stumble in one

• point,
• point

• he has become guilty of all.

James 2:11

• For He who
• For he who
• God
• For the one who
• He who
• The same God who

• said, ‘
• said,
• said “
• said ‘
• said, ’
• said, “

• Do
• You must
• You shall

• not commit

• adultery,”
• adultery’
• adultery”
• adultery,

• also

• said,
• said “
• said ‘
• said, “

• Do
• You must
• You shall

• not
• not commit

• murder.”
• murder.” ;
• murder.
• commit murder.”
• kill.”

• Now if
• So if
• Even if

• you donot commit

• adultery, but
• adultery but

• you do

• murder,
• kill,

• you

• have become a
• are a

• transgressor of the law.
• lawbreaker.

James 2:12

• So

• speak, and
• speak and

• act as
• so do, as
• act like

• people who
• men who

• will
• are to
• are going to

• be

• judged by the ‘
• judged by the
• judged by a

• law of
• law that
• law that gives

• freedom.
• freedom,
• freedom.’
• liberty.
• sets us free.

James 2:13

• For judgment is without

• mercy for the
• mercy to the
• mercy to

• one who
• anyone who

• has shown no

• mercy;
• mercy.
• mercy. But

• mercy
• Mercy

• triumphs over

• judgment!
• judgment.
• judgement.

James 2:14

• What good
• My brothers and sisters, what good
• My friends, what good
• What use

• is
• does

• it,
• it profit,

• my

• brothers, if
• brothers and sisters, if
• brothers, if a
• brethren, if

• someone
• man
• you

• says
• say

• he
• they
• you

• have
• has

• faith but
• faith when

• does
• they do
• do

• not
• n’t

• have works?

• Can
• Can that

• faith
• kind of faith
• his faith
• such faith

• save

• him?
• you.
• you?
• them?
• anyone.
• anyone?

James 2:15

• If a brother or
• Suppose a brother or
• And if a brother or
• and if a brother or

• sister
• sister in

• is
• is without

• naked and
• naked and in
• poorly clothed and

• lack of
• lacks

• daily

• food?
• food.
• food
• food,

James 2:16

• and one of you says to

• them, ‘
• them, “
• them—“

• Go in

• peace,
• peace;

• keep

• warm and
• warm, and

• eat well,” but you do

• not
• n’t

• give

• them what
• them what the

• body
• their body

• needs, what good is it?

James 2:17

• In the same

• way,
• way

• faith, if
• faith. If
• faith; if
• faith by

• it
• itself, if it

• does
• has no

• not have works,
• works,

• is

• dead.
• dead by itself.

James 2:18

• But someone
• Someone

• will
• might
• may

• say—“
• say, “

• You have

• faith and
• faith, and
• faith. And
• faith;
• faith.
• faith, but

• I
• others

• have
• do

• works.”
• works;
• deeds.”
• deeds?
• things.”
• things.

• show
• Show

• me your faith without

• works, and
• works and
• your works, and

• I

• will
• ’ll

• show
• prove to

• you my
• you

• faith by
• faith by what

• my
• I

• works.”
• works.
• do.
• do.”
• actions.”
• deeds.
• deeds.”

James 2:19

• You

• believe that “
• believe that

• God

• is one.
• is one;

• you
• You

• do well. Even the demons

• believe—and
• believe, and
• believe that—and

• shudder.
• shudder!
• tremble with fear.
• tremble.
• tremble!

James 2:20

• [Translation pending]

James 2:21

• Was

• not
• n’t

• Abraham our father justified by

• works, when
• works when
• works, in that

• he

• offered
• offered up

• his

• son
• son,

• Isaac, on the
• Isaac on the
• Isaac upon the
• Isaac to God on the

• altar.
• altar?

James 2:22

• You
• So you

• see that

• faith
• his faith

• was
• was at

• work along with
• active along with

• his

• works, and by works
• works, and by works,
• works, and
• works and

• faith
• his faith

• was

• made perfect by what
• perfected by
• made complete by

• he did.
• works,
• works.
• his works;
• his works.

James 2:23

• and the Scripture
• and the scripture
• And the Scripture
• And the scripture
• Thus the scripture
• So the scripture
• So the Scripture

• was
• came

• fulfilled that
• fulfilled which

• says, “
• says,
• says, “And

• Abraham believed

• God and
• God, and
• God. And

• it was

• credited to
• reckoned to
• counted to
• accounted to

• him as
• him for

• righteousness.” And
• righteousness,” and “
• righteousness’; and
• righteousness, and
• righteousness”; and
• righteousness,” and

• He
• he

• was

• called “the
• called the

• friend of

• God.”
• God.

James 2:24

• You see that a
• So you see that a
• You see then that a

• person
• man

• is justified by

• works, and
• works and

• not by faith

• alone.
• only.

James 2:25

• In the same
• And in the same
• Likewise,

• way, was
• way was
• was

• not
• n’t

• Rahab the

• prostitute
• harlot

• also justified by

• works when
• works, in that
• her

• she

• received the
• welcomed the

• messengers, and
• messengers and
• spies and

• sent

• them out by another
• them out another
• them out by a
• them off in a

• way?
• way.
• road?
• road.
• different route?
• different direction.
• different direction?

James 2:26

• For just as the body without the spirit is

• dead,
• dead. In the

• so also
• so
• same way,
• same way

• faith without
• faith that

• works
• does nothing
• actions
• deeds

• is

• dead!
• dead.