4. Are ye not then judging in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts?
5. Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world that they might be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him?
6. But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
7. Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called?
8. If ye truly fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well;
9. but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin and are accused of the law as rebels.
10. For whosoever shall have kept the whole law, and then offends in one point is made guilty of all.
11. For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not murder. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou commit murder, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12. So speak ye and so do as those that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
13. For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has shown no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.
14. My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says that they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?
15. If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
16. and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what shall it profit them?
17. Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.
18. But someone may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
19. Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well; the demons also believe and tremble.
20. But, O vain man, dost thou desire to know that faith without works is dead?