James 2:8-16

Goodspeed(i) 8 If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right, 9 but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers. 10 For anyone who obeys the whole of the Law but makes one single slip is guilty of breaking it all. 11 For he who said, "You must not commit adultery," said also, "You must not commit murder." Now if you abstain from adultery, but commit murder, you are still a violator of the Law. 12 You must talk and act like men who expect to be judged by the law that treats men as free. 13 For the merciless will be mercilessly judged; but mercy will triumph over judgment. 14 My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him? 15 If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, 16 and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?