6. But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?
7. Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name of the one to whom you belong?
8. However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10. For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one point only has become guilty of all of it.
11. For the one who said “Do not commit adultery” also said “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12. Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.
13. For judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
14. What is the benefit, my brothers, if someone says that he has faith but does not have works? That faith is not able to save him, is it?
15. If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,
16. and one of you should say to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what is the benefit?
17. Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
18. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
19. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder!
20. But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?