James 2

ECB(i) 1
HE TEST OF PARTIALITY
y brothers, be not partial in the trust of our Adonay Yah Shua Messiah of glory. 2 For whenever a man comes to your synagogue - goldringed, in radiant apparel; and a poor man also comes in foul apparel; 3 and you look on him who bears the radiant apparel and say to him, You sit here well! and say to the poor, You stand there! or, Sit here under my footstool! 4 discern you not in yourselves and become judges of evil reasonings? 5 Hearken, my beloved brothers, Selects not Elohim the poor of this cosmos rich in trust and heirs of the sovereigndom which he pre-evangelized to them who love him? 6 But you dishonor the poor. Is it not the rich who overpower you? And drag you to the judgment? 7 Blaspheme they not that good name by which you are called? 8 If indeed you still complete/shalam the sovereign torah according to the scripture, Love your neighbour as yourself, you do well: 9 But if you are partial, you work sin; and the torah reproves you as transgressors. 10 For whoever guards the whole torah and still stumbles in one, becomes subject to all. 11 For he who says, Adulterize not! also says, Murder not! And if you adulterize not and still murder, you become a transgressor of the torah. 12 Thus speak and thus do as being judged through the torah of liberty. 13 For whoever deals no mercy has unmercied judgment; and mercy exults against judgment. 14 What benefit, my brothers, whenever one words that he has the trust and has not works? Can the trust save him? 15 Whenever a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily nourishment, 16 and one of you says to them, Go in shalom! Be warmed and filled! - and not give them those needful to the body; what benefit is it? 17 Thus, even trust, whenever it has not works, by itself is dead. 18 Yet one says, You have trust and I also have works: show me your trust by your works and I also show you my trust by my works *. his sentence is a play on emphasis. 19 You - you trust that Elohim is one; you do well: the demons also trust and shudder. 20 And will you to know, O vain human, that the trust apart from works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered Yischaq his son on the sacrifice altar? 22 See how the trust co-worked with his works? And the trust completed/shalamed by works? 23 And the scripture fulfilled/shalamed, wording, Abraham trusted Elohim and it was reckoned to him to justness; - and he was called the Friend of Elohim. 24 - so you see, a human is justified by works and not only by trust. 25 Likewise also was not Rachab the whore justified by works when she received the angels and sent them another way? 26 For exactly as the body apart from the spirit is dead, thus the trust apart from works is also dead.