Holman Christian Standard Bible

James 2:9-17 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

9. But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

10. For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

11. For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

12. Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.

13. For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

14. What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

15. If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food

16. and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

17. In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.