James 2
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Warning Against Partiality
1#1Co 2:8; Lev 19:15My brothers, have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, without partiality. 2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and also a poor man in ragged clothing comes in, 3and you have respect for him who wears the fine clothing and say to him, “Sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor, “Stand there,” or “Sit here under my footstool,” 4#Jn 7:24have you not then become partial among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5#Mt 5:3; Lk 6:20; 12:21Listen, my beloved brothers. Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him? 6#1Co 11:22; Ac 8:3But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you and drag you before the judgment seats? 7#Ac 11:26Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?
8#Lev 19:18If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”#Lev 19:18. you are doing well. 9But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as sinners. 10#Gal 3:10For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of breaking the whole law. 11#Ex 20:13–14; Dt 5:17–18For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,”#Ex 20:14; Dt 5:18. also said, “Do not kill.”#Ex 20:13; Dt 5:17. Now if you do not commit adultery, yet you kill, you have become a lawbreaker.
12#Jas 1:25So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. 13#Pr 21:13; Mt 5:7For he who has shown no mercy will have judgment without mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment.
Faith and Works
14#Jas 1:22–25; Gal 5:6What does it profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can faith save him? 15#Lk 3:11If a brother or sister is naked and lacking daily food, 16and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” and yet you give them nothing that the body needs, what does it profit? 17#Jas 2:14; 2:26So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
18#Gal 5:6; Jas 3:13But a man may say, “You have faith and I have works.”
Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19#Dt 6:4; Mt 8:29You believe that there is one God; you do well. The demons also believe and tremble.
20#Jas 2:26But do you want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21#Ge 22:16–18Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22#1Th 1:3Do you see how faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23#Ge 15:6; 2Ch 20:7The Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”#Ge 15:6. and he was called the friend of God. 24You see then how by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25#Heb 11:31; Jos 2:1; 2:19–21Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26#Jas 2:20; 2:17As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.
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Ya'akov 2
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1My Achim b'Moshiach, you do not with your acts of maso panim (favoritism) hold to the#2:1 orthodox Jewish emunah of the glorious Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.#2:1 Dt 1:17; Lv 19:15; Prov 24:23
2For if there enter into your Beit HaKnesset (House of Assembly, shul, synagogue, shtibel) a man with gold rings on his fingers in expensive bekeshe (kaftan) and shtreimel, and there enters also an underpriviledged nebach, a kabtzen (poor person) in shmattes (rags),
3and you pay special attention to the takif [influential man] wearing the bekeshe and shtreimel and say, “You sit here in the seat of kibbud” (respect, honor), and to the kabtzen (pauper) you say, “You stand there.” Or “You sit at my feet,”
4did you not among yourselves differentiate with prejudice and became shofetim (judges) with machshavot re'sha (evil thoughts)?
5Hinei! My beloved Achim b'Moshiach, did not Der Oybershter make the Aniyim of the Olam Hazeh in fact Bechirim of Hashem to be rich in emunah and also yoreshim of the Malchut Hashem, which Adoshem gave as a havtachah (promise) to those with Ahavas Hashem?#2:5 Job 34:19
6But you dishonored the ish evyon (poor man, pauper). Do not the oishirim (rich ones) oppress you and they drag you into the Batei Din (Bet Din courts)?
7Do they not commit Chillul Hashem gidduf (blasphemy) against the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiachʼs Shem Tov that has been named upon you?
8If indeed you are shomer regarding the Dat HaMalkhut (Royal Decree), as it is written in the Kitvei Hakodesh, V'AHAVTAH L'REI'ACHA KAMOCHA#2:8 Lv 19:18 (And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself) you do well.
9But if you show maso panim (favoritism), you are chote'im (sinners) committing averos (transgressions) against the Torah.#2:9 Dt 1:17
10For whoever is shomer over kol haTorah but stumbles in one mitzvah, such is condemned as ashem (guilty) of averoh (transgression) of kol mitzvot.
11For the One having said, LO TINAF (You shall not commit adultery) said also LO TIRTZACH (You shall not murder). Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a Poshei'a al mitzvot HaTorah (Transgressor of the Torah).#2:11 Ex 20:13,14; Dt 5:17,18
12So let your devarim (words) be and so let your ma'asim (deeds) be as those who are about to come under the judgment of the Torah HaCherut.#2:12 1:25
13For the Din (Judgment) will be without rachamim (mercy) to the one not having shown rachamim. Rachamim wins the nitzachon (victory) over HaDin.
14What is the revach (gain, profit), my Achim b'Moshiach, if anyone claims to have emunah but does not have ma'asim (deeds)? Surely not such “emunah” is able to bring him to Yeshu'at Eloheinu?
15If an Ach b'Moshiach or an Achot b'Moshiach is dressed in shmattes (tatters) and lacking “lechem chukeinu”#2:15 Mt 6:11 (our daily bread),
16and anyone of you says to them, “Go in shalom! Be warmed and fed!” but you do not give to them the physical necessities, what is the revach (profit)?
17So also Emunah, if alongside it there is not in its company Ma'asim, is by itself niftar (deceased, dead).
18But someone will say, “You have emunah and I have ma'asim.” You make known to me the Hisgalus haSod (the revelation of the mystery) of your emunah without your ma'asim, and I'll show you, Chaver, from my ma'asim, the Emunah.
19So you're impressed with yourselves that with your emunah you can recite the kri'at Shema, nu? O you do so well… why, even the shedim have your da'as and emunah! But they shudder!#2:19 Dt 6:4
20Are you willing to have da'as, O hollow man, that “Emunah”#2:20 of dead orthodoxy unharnessed to Ma'asim, stands idle?
21Avraham Avinu, was he not YITZDAK IM HASHEM (justified with G-d) by his ma'asim when he performed the akedah (binding) and offered up Yitzchak Bno (Isaac his son) upon the mizbe'ach?#2:21 Gn 22:9,12
22Hinei! While Avraham Avinuʼs Emunah was working, working right alongside was Avraham Avinuʼs Ma'asim, and by Ma'asim the emunah was made shleimah!
23And the Kitvei Hakodesh was fulfilled, Avraham Avinu V'HE'EMIN BA'HASHEM VAYACHSHEVE'HA LO TZEDAKAH#2:23 Gn 15:6 (believed Hashem and it was accounted to him for righteousness). He was even called “Ohev Hashem”#2:23 Gn 15:6; Isa 41:8; 2Chr 20:7 (“Friend of G-d”).
24You see that from Ma'asim#2:24 of Emunah a man is YITZDAK IM HASHEM and not from#2:24 sterilely unpartnered “Emunah” alone.#2:24 i.e., mere intellectual assent
25And likewise also Rachav the Zonah — was she not made YITZDAK IM HASHEM from Ma'asim, having received the messengers and having sent them out a different way?
26For just as the guf (body) without the neshamah is niftar (deceased, dead), so also is Emunah without Ma'asim.
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