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BSB YAC Chapter 2

YAC 2 ©

A Warning against Favoritism

2My brothers, as you hold out [your] faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, {do} not [show] favoritism.

2Suppose a man comes into your meeting[fn] [wearing] a gold ring [and] fine clothes, and a poor [man] in shabby clothes also comes in. 3[If] you lavish attention on the [man] in fine clothes and say, Here [is] a seat of honor,” [but] say to the poor [man], “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,” 4have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges [with] evil thoughts?

5Listen, my beloved brothers: {Has} not God chosen the poor of this world [to be] rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him? 6But you have dishonored the poor. [Is it] not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? 7{Are} they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?[fn]

8If you really fulfill [the] royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[fn] you are doing well. 9But if you show favoritism, you sin [and] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

10Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one [point] is guilty of [breaking] all of it. 11For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,”[fn] also said, Do not murder.”[fn] If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

12Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by [the] law that gives freedom. 13For judgment without mercy [ will be shown to ] anyone who has not been merciful Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Faith and Works

(Galatians 3:1–9)

14What good [is it], my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16[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 ]? 17So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action,[fn] is dead.

18But 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. 19You believe that God is one.[fn] Good for you! Even the demons believe [that]—and shudder.

20O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?[fn] 21{Was} not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that [his] faith was working with his actions, and [his] faith was perfected by what he did. 23And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[fn] and he was called a friend of God.[fn] 24As you can see a man is justified by [his] deeds and not by faith alone.

25In the same way, {was} not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies[fn] and sent [them] off on another route? 26As the body without [the] spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.


2:2 Greek your synagogue

2:7 Or the noble name invoked upon you or the noble name of Him to whom you belong

2:8 Leviticus 19:18

2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18

2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17

2:17 Literally if it does not have works

2:19 Or that there is one God

2:20 BYZ and TR dead

2:23 Genesis 15:6

2:23 See Isaiah 41:8.

2:25 Literally messengers

YAC 2 ©

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