6. But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
7. Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?
8. Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
9. but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
10. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.
11. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12. So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
13. For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
14. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
15. If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
16. and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17. Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
18. Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.
19. Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder.
20. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?
21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?