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James 2:11-21 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

11. for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

12. so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

13. for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

14. What [is] the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

15. and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,

16. and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what [is] the profit?

17. so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

18. But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

19. thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

20. And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

21. Abraham our father--was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

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