雅各书 2
警告偏私
1 我的弟兄们，你们信奉我们荣耀的主耶稣基督，就不可按着外貌待人。 2 若有一个人戴着金戒指，穿着华丽的衣服，进入你们的会堂，又有一个穷人穿着肮脏的衣服也进去， 3 而你们只看重那穿华丽衣服的人，说：“请坐在这里”，又对那穷人说：“你站在那里”，或“坐在我脚凳旁”； 4 这岂不是你们偏心待人，用恶意评断人吗？
5 我亲爱的弟兄们，请听，上帝岂不是拣选了世上的贫穷人，使他们在信心上富足，并承受他所应许给那些爱他之人的国吗？ 6 你们却羞辱贫穷的人。欺压你们，拉你们到公堂去的，不就是这些富有的人吗？ 7 毁谤为你们求告时所奉的尊名的，不就是他们吗？
8 经上记着：“要爱邻 t如己”，你们若切实守这至尊的律法，你们就做得很好。 9 但你们若按外貌待人就是犯罪，是被律法定为犯法的。 10 因为凡遵守全部律法的，只违背了一条就是违犯了所有的律法。 11 原来那说“不可奸淫”的，也说“不可杀人”。你就是不奸淫，却杀人，也是成为违犯律法的。 12 既然你们要按使人自由的律法受审判，就要照这律法说话行事。 13 因为对那不怜悯人的，他们要受没有怜悯的审判；怜悯胜过审判。
信心和行为
14 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？ 15 若是弟兄或是姊妹没有衣服穿，又缺少日用的饮食； 16 你们中间有人对他们说：“平平安安地去吧！愿你们穿得暖，吃得饱”，却不给他们身体所需要的，这有什么益处呢？ 17 信心也是这样，若没有行为是死的。
18 但是有人会说：“你有信心，我有行为。”把你没有行为的信心给我看，我就藉着我的行为把我的信心给你看。 19 你信上帝只有一位，你信得很好；连鬼魔也信，且怕得发抖。 20 你这虚浮的人哪，你愿意知道没有行为的信心是没有用的吗？ 21 我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕把他儿子以撒献在坛上，岂不是因行为得称义吗？ 22 可见信心是与他的行为相辅并行，而且信心是因着行为才得以成全的。 23 这正应验了经上所说：“亚伯拉罕信了上帝，这就算他为义”；他又得称为上帝的朋友。 24 这样看来，人称义是因着行为，不是单因着信。 25 同样，妓女喇合接待使者，又放他们从另一条路出去，不也是因行为称义吗？ 26 所以，就如身体没有灵魂是死的，信心没有行为也是死的。
JAMES 2
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1 My friends, if you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, you won't treat some people better than others. 2 Suppose a rich person wearing fancy clothes and a gold ring comes to one of your meetings. And suppose a poor person dressed in worn-out clothes also comes. 3 You must not give the best seat to the one in fancy clothes and tell the one who is poor to stand at the side or sit on the floor.
4 This is the same as saying that some people are better than others, and you would be acting like a crooked judge.
5 My dear friends, pay attention. God has given a lot of faith to the poor people in this world. God has also promised them a share in his kingdom that he will give to everyone who loves him. 6 You mistreat the poor. But isn't it the rich who boss you around and drag you off to court?
7 Aren't they the ones who make fun of your Lord?
8 t You will do all right, if you obey the most important lawt in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves.
9 But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.
10 t If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all.
11 t The same God who told us to be faithful in marriage also told us not to murder. So even if you are faithful in marriage, but murder someone, you still have broken God's Law.
12 Speak and act like people who will be judged by the law that sets us free.
13 Do this, because on the day of judgment there will be no pity for those who have not had pity on others. But even in judgment, God is merciful!tFaith and Works
14 My friends, what good is it to say you have faith, when you don't do anything to show you really do have faith? Can this kind of faith save you? 15 If you know someone who doesn't have any clothes or food, 16 you shouldn't just say, “I hope all goes well for you. I hope you will be warm and have plenty to eat.” What good is it to say this, unless you do something to help?
17 Faith that doesn't lead us to do good deeds is all alone and dead!
18 Suppose someone disagrees and says, “It is possible to have faith without doing kind deeds.”
I would answer, “Prove that you have faith without doing kind deeds, and I will prove that I have faith by doing them.”
19 You surely believe there is only one God. That's fine. Even demons believe this, and it makes them shake with fear.
20 Does some stupid person want proof that faith without deeds is useless? 21 t Well, our ancestor Abraham pleased God by putting his son Isaac on the altar to sacrifice him. 22 Now you see how Abraham's faith and deeds worked together. He proved his faith was real by what he did.
23 t This is what the Scriptures mean by saying, “Abraham had faith in God, and God accepted him.” That's how Abraham became God's friend.
24 You can now see that we please God by what we do and not only by what we believe.
25 t For example, Rahab had been a prostitute. But she pleased God when she welcomed the spies and sent them home by another way.
26 Anyone who doesn't breathe is dead, and faith that doesn't do anything is just as dead!