James 2 (NET)

James 2:1¹My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 24:23Jas 2:9Deut 16:19Lev 19:15Deut 1:17Prov 28:212 Chr 19:7Matt 22:16Jas 2:3Jas 3:17

James 2:2²For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Esth 3:10Luke 15:22Esth 8:2Gen 27:15Matt 11:8-9Zech 3:3-4Isa 64:6

James 2:3³do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person, “You stand over there,” or “Sit on the floor”?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:9Jas 2:6Luke 7:44-46Isa 65:5Jude 1:16

James 2:4⁴If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:24Job 34:19Matt 7:1-5Jas 4:11Mal 2:9Ps 58:1Ps 82:2Jas 1:1-27Job 21:27Ps 109:31

James 2:5⁵Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:3Luke 6:20Rev 2:91 Cor 1:26-282 Cor 8:9Luke 12:21Heb 11:261 Pet 1:4Luke 12:32Jas 1:12

James 2:6⁶But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 17:51 Cor 11:22Prov 14:31Ps 14:6Acts 13:50Acts 16:19-20Acts 17:6Acts 8:3Amos 2:6-7Amos 5:11

James 2:7⁷Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 2:9-11Rev 13:5-61 Tim 1:13Acts 11:26Eph 3:15Ps 111:9Acts 26:11Acts 4:12Isa 65:15Isa 7:14

James 2:8⁸But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:18Gal 5:14Matt 22:39Jas 2:12Rom 13:8-9Gal 6:2Mark 12:31-33Lev 19:341 Pet 2:9Jas 1:25

James 2:9⁹But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:15Jas 2:1-4John 8:91 John 3:4John 16:8John 8:46Rom 3:201 Cor 14:24Gal 2:19Jude 1:15

James 2:10¹⁰For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:10Matt 5:18-19Deut 27:26

James 2:11¹¹For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:13-14Matt 5:21-28Deut 5:17-18Rom 13:9Luke 18:20Mark 10:19Matt 19:18Ps 130:3-4Lev 4:13

James 2:12¹²Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:25Jas 2:82 Pet 1:4-8Phil 4:8Col 3:17

James 2:13¹³For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:7Matt 6:15Prov 21:13Luke 6:37Eph 2:4-7Matt 18:28-35Ps 18:25Matt 7:1-2Matt 25:41-461 John 4:18-19

James 2:14¹⁴What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:26-27Matt 7:21-23Jas 1:22-25Luke 6:49Titus 1:162 Pet 1:5Jas 2:261 Cor 13:2-3Gal 5:6Heb 11:17

James 2:15¹⁵If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:11Matt 25:35-40Isa 58:7Isa 58:10Job 31:16-21Jas 2:5Heb 11:37Mark 14:7

James 2:16¹⁶and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 3:27-281 John 3:16-18Matt 25:42-45Rom 12:92 Cor 8:8Matt 14:15-16Matt 15:32Job 22:7-9

James 2:17¹⁷So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:262 Pet 1:5-9Jas 2:19-201 Cor 13:13Jas 2:141 Tim 1:51 Thess 1:3

James 2:18¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:13Jas 2:141 Tim 1:5Gal 5:6Titus 2:11-14Titus 2:71 Thess 1:3-10Matt 7:16-17Rom 14:23Heb 11:31

James 2:19¹⁹You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that—and tremble with fear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:34Mark 1:24Matt 8:29Acts 16:17Deut 6:4Acts 19:15Gal 3:20Mark 5:7Isa 44:8Isa 46:9

James 2:20²⁰But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:17Jas 2:26Prov 12:11Rom 1:21Gal 6:3Ps 94:8-111 Cor 15:35-361 Tim 1:6Col 2:8Jas 1:26

James 2:21²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 22:16-18Gen 22:9-12John 8:39Matt 12:37Rom 4:16Acts 7:2Isa 51:2Jas 2:18Jas 2:24John 8:53

James 2:22²²You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 1:3Heb 11:17-191 John 2:5Gal 5:61 John 4:17-18Jas 2:18

James 2:23²³And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:6Isa 41:82 Chr 20:7Gal 3:6Rom 4:22-24Exod 33:11Rom 4:3-6John 15:13-15Gal 3:22Rom 11:2

James 2:24²⁴You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:15-18Jas 2:21-22

James 2:25²⁵And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:31Josh 6:22-25Josh 2:19-21Josh 2:15Josh 2:4Josh 2:1Josh 6:17Matt 1:5Matt 21:31Jas 2:18

James 2:26²⁶For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:20Jas 2:17Jas 2:14Eccl 12:7Ps 104:29Acts 7:59-60Job 34:14-15Isa 2:22Luke 23:46