4. are ye not divided in your own mind, and become judges with evil thoughts?
5. Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
6. But ye have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
7. Do not they blaspheme the honourable name by the which ye are called?
8. Howbeit if ye fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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 shewed 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.