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James 2:6-14 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

6. Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

7. Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?

8. Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

9. But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

10. For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

11. For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

12. Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.

13. For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

14. What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

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