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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JAS-2:1",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.1",
        "text": "My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JAS-2:2",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.2",
        "text": "For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JAS-2:3",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.3",
        "text": "and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JAS-2:4",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.4",
        "text": "Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JAS-2:5",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.5",
        "text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JAS-2:6",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.6",
        "text": "But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JAS-2:7",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.7",
        "text": "Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JAS-2:8",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.8",
        "text": "Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JAS-2:9",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.9",
        "text": "but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JAS-2:10",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.10",
        "text": "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JAS-2:11",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.11",
        "text": "For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JAS-2:12",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.12",
        "text": "So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JAS-2:13",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.13",
        "text": "For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JAS-2:14",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.14",
        "text": "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JAS-2:15",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.15",
        "text": "If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JAS-2:16",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.16",
        "text": "and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JAS-2:17",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.17",
        "text": "Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JAS-2:18",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.18",
        "text": "Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JAS-2:19",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.19",
        "text": "Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JAS-2:20",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.20",
        "text": "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JAS-2:21",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.21",
        "text": "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JAS-2:22",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.22",
        "text": "Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JAS-2:23",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.23",
        "text": "and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JAS-2:24",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.24",
        "text": "Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JAS-2:25",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.25",
        "text": "And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JAS-2:26",
        "verseRef": "JAS.2.26",
        "text": "For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead."
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