14我的弟兄姊妹，如果有人自称有信心，却没有行为来证实，有什么用呢？这种信心能够救他吗？15如果有弟兄姊妹缺衣少食，16你们只是对他们说：“安心走吧，愿你们穿得暖，吃得饱”，却不帮助他解决实际困难，这有什么用呢？17因此，信心若没有行为，就是死的。18必有人说：“你有信心，我有行为。”请把你没有行为的信心指给我看，我就借着行为把我的信心显给你看。19你相信上帝只有一位，你信得没错，鬼魔也相信，而且恐惧战抖。20愚蠢的人啊，你们不知道没有行为的信心是死的吗？21我们的祖先亚伯拉罕把儿子以撒献在祭坛上的时候，难道不是因行为而被称为义人吗？22可见他的信心和行为相称，而且信心要有行为才是完全的。23这正应验了圣经的记载：“亚伯拉罕信上帝，就被算为义人”，并且被称为“上帝的朋友”。24可见人要被上帝算为义人必须有与信心相称的行为，并非单有信心。25还有妓女喇合，她收留使者，把他们藏在家里，又送他们从别的路逃生，不也是因行为而被称为义人吗？26身体没有灵魂是死的，同样，信心没有行为也是死的。
English Standard Version
The Sin of Partiality
1My brothers,* show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.2For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,3and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”4have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?5Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?6But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?8If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.9But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.10For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.11For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.12So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?15If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,16and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good* is that?17So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.18But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.19You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!20Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?22You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;23and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.25And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
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