Chapter-21 ✽My brethren, having faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory✽, do not show favoritism. 2 For if a man with a gold ring and fine clothes comes to your meeting, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes, 3 and you show respect to the one who wears the fine clothes, and say to him, “You sit here in a good place”, and say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit here by my footstool”, 4 are you not showing partiality among yourselves, and becoming judges with evil thoughts?5 ✽Listen, my dear brethren, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs✽ of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him✽? 6 But you have treated the poor with contempt. Do not rich men oppress you, and drag you to court? 7 Do they not blaspheme that worthy name✽ by which you are called?8 If you fulfil the royal law✽ according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself✽”, you do well. 9 But if you show favoritism,✽ you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors. 10 ✽For whoever keeps the whole Law, and yet goes wrong✽ in one point, he is guilty of breaking the whole Law. 11 ✽For he who said, “Do not commit adultery”, said also, “Do not commit murder”. Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the Law.12 So speak and act as those who will be judged✽ by the law of liberty.✽ 13 ✝For the one who has not shown mercy will have judgment without mercy. And mercy rejoices against judgment.14 What use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, and does not have works? Can such faith save him✽? 15 ✽If a brother or sister is without clothing, and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”, but you do not give them those things which are needful to the body, what is the use? 17 Even so faith, if it is without works, is dead, being alone.18 ✽Yes, a man may say, “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works”. 19 ✽You believe that there is one God. You do well to believe it, but the devils also believe it, and tremble.20 But do you want to know, O foolish✽ man, that faith without works is dead?✽ 21 ✽✝Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 ✽Do you see how faith was working with his deeds, and that faith was made perfect by works? 23 ✽And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”, and he was called “the friend of God”.✽ 24 ✽You see then that a man is justified by deeds, and not by faith only.25 ✽In the same way was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 ✽For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innersculpting/message
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