2 My brethren, do not ye have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, in acception of persons [in acception, or taking, of persons].

² For if a man that hath a golden ring, and in a fair clothing, cometh in your company, and a poor man entereth in a foul clothing, [Forsooth if there shall enter into your covent, or gathering together, a man having a gold ring, in white, or fair, cloth, forsooth and a poor man shall enter in foul habit, or cloth,]

³ and if ye behold into him [and ye behold into him] that is clothed with clear clothing, and if ye say to him, Sit thou here well; but to the poor man ye say, Stand thou there, either sit under the stool of my feet [Stand thou there, or sit under the stool of my feet];

⁴ whether ye deem not with yourselves, and be made doomsmen of wicked thoughts?

⁵ Hear ye, my most dear-worthy brethren, whether God chose not poor men in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, that God promised to men that love him?

⁶ But ye have despised the poor man. Whether rich men oppress not you by power, and they draw you to dooms [and draw you to dooms]?

⁷ Whether they blaspheme not the good name, that is called to help on you [that is in-called of you]?

⁸ Nevertheless if ye perform the king's law, by scriptures^[a], Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

⁹ But if ye take persons, ye work sin, and be reproved of the law, as trespassers [as transgressors].

¹⁰ And whoever keepeth all the law, but offendeth in one [Forsooth whoever shall keep all the law, soothly offend in one], he is made guilty of all.

¹¹ For he that said, Thou shalt do no lechery [Thou shalt not do lechery], said also, Thou shalt not slay; that if thou doest no lechery, but thou slayest, thou art made [a] trespasser of the law.

¹² Thus speak ye, and thus do ye, as beginning to be deemed by the law of freedom.

¹³ For why doom without mercy is to him, that doeth no mercy; but mercy above raiseth doom.

¹⁴ My brethren, what shall it profit, if any man say that he hath faith, but he hath not works? whether faith shall be able to save him?

¹⁵ And if a brother or sister be naked, and have need of each day's livelode [of each day's lifelode],

¹⁶ and if any of you say to them, Go ye in peace [Go in peace], be ye made hot, and be ye filled; but if ye give not to them those things that be necessary to the body, what shall it profit?

¹⁷ So also faith, if it hath not works, is dead in itself.

¹⁸ But some man shall say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show thou to me thy faith without works [show thou me thy faith without works], and I shall show to thee my faith of works.

¹⁹ Thou believest, that one God is; thou doest well; and devils believe, and [together] tremble.

²⁰ But wilt thou know, thou vain man, that faith without works is idle?

²¹ Whether Abraham, our father, was not justified of works [Abraham, our father, whether he was not justified of works], offering Isaac, his son, on the altar?

²² Therefore thou seest, that faith wrought with his works, and his faith was filled of works [and his faith was fulfilled of works].

²³ And the scripture was filled, saying, Abraham believed to God, and it was areckoned to him to rightwiseness^[b], and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴ Ye see that a man is justified of works, and not of faith only.

²⁵ In like manner, whether also Rahab, the whore, was not justified of works, and received the messengers, and sent them out by another way?

²⁶ For as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.