you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.
002:010 A man who has kept the Law as a whole, but has failed to keep
some one command, has become guilty of violating all.
002:011 For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said,
"Do not commit murder," and if you are a murderer, although not
an adulterer, you have become an offender against the Law.
002:012 Speak and act as those should who are expecting to be judged
by the Law of freedom.
002:013 For he who shows no mercy will have judgement given against him
without mercy; but mercy triumphs over judgement.
002:014 What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith,
and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him?
002:015 Suppose a Christian brother or sister is poorly clad or
lacks daily food,
002:016 and one of you says to them, "I wish you well; keep yourselves
warm and well fed," and yet you do not give them what they need;
what is the use of that?
002:017 So also faith, if it is unaccompanied by obedience, has no life
in it--so long as it stands alone.
002:018 Nay, some one will say, "You have faith, I have actions:
prove to me your faith apart from corresponding actions and I
will prove mine to you by my actions.
002:019 You believe that God is one, and you are quite right:
evil spirits also believe this, and shudder."
002:020 But, idle boaster, are you willing to be taught how it
is that faith apart from obedience is worthless?
Take the case of Abraham our forefather.
002:021 Was it, or was it not, because of his actions that he was
declared to be righteous as the result of his having offered
up his son Isaac upon the altar?