James 2

James forbids partiality: to honor the rich and dishonor the poor in the assembly is to become “judges with evil thoughts,” for God chose the poor to be “rich in faith.” Showing partiality breaks the “royal law,” “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Then he takes up faith and works: “What good is it... if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?” A faith that offers only kind words to the hungry is dead; “faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” He answers the objection that faith and works are separate: Abraham was “justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac,” his faith “completed by his works,” and Rahab likewise was shown righteous by her actions. “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”