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Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":7,"text":"Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?","footnotes":[{"noteId":4,"offset":81,"text":"Or the noble name invoked upon you or the noble name of Him to whom you belong","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":8,"text":"If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.","footnotes":[{"noteId":5,"offset":90,"text":"Leviticus 19:18","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"text":"But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":10,"text":"Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"text":"For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.","footnotes":[{"noteId":6,"offset":42,"text":"Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18","caller":"+"},{"noteId":7,"offset":70,"text":"Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":12,"text":"Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":13,"text":"For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Faith and Works"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":14,"text":"What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"text":"Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"text":"If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"text":"So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.","footnotes":[{"noteId":8,"offset":57,"text":"Literally if it does not have works","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":18,"text":"But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":19,"text":"You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.","footnotes":[{"noteId":9,"offset":28,"text":"Or that there is one God","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":20,"text":"O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?","footnotes":[{"noteId":10,"offset":74,"text":"BYZ and TR dead","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":21,"text":"Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":22,"text":"You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":23,"text":"And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.","footnotes":[{"noteId":11,"offset":111,"text":"Genesis 15:6","caller":"+"},{"noteId":12,"offset":146,"text":"See Isaiah 41:8.","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":24,"text":"As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":25,"text":"In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?","footnotes":[{"noteId":13,"offset":103,"text":"Literally messengers","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":26,"text":"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.","footnotes":[]}],"footnotes":[]},"fullChapterApiLink":"/api/BSB/JAS/2.json"}