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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Favoritism Forbidden</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a good seat for you,&#8221; but say to the poor man, &#8220;You stand there&#8221; or &#8220;Sit on the floor by my feet,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content"> you are doing right. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he who said, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:14; Deut. 5:18</span></span></span><span class="content"> also said, &#8220;You shall not murder.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13; Deut. 5:17</span></span></span><span class="content"> If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Faith and Deeds</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If one of you says to them, &#8220;Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,&#8221; but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But someone will say, &#8220;You have faith; I have deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.2.18"><span class="content">Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JAS.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that&#8212;and shudder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JAS.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JAS.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">dead</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JAS.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JAS.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JAS.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And the scripture was fulfilled that says, &#8220;Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 15:6</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he was called God&#8217;s friend. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JAS.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JAS.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JAS.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JAS.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 27</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my light and my salvation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">whom shall I fear?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the stronghold of my life&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">of whom shall I be afraid?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the wicked advance against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">to devour</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">slander</span></span></span><span class="content"> me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">it is my enemies and my foes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">who will stumble and fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though an army besiege me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">my heart will not fear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">though war break out against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">even then I will be confident.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">One thing I ask from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">this only do I seek:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">that I may dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">to gaze on the beauty of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">and to seek him in his temple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For in the day of trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">he will keep me safe in his dwelling;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">and set me high upon a rock.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then my head will be exalted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">above the enemies who surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">I will sing and make music to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hear my voice when I call, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="content">be merciful to me and answer me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My heart says of you, &#8220;Seek his face!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="content">Your face, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I will seek.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not hide your face from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">do not turn your servant away in anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">you have been my helper.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">Do not reject me or forsake me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">God my Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Though my father and mother forsake me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will receive me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Teach me your way, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">lead me in a straight path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">because of my oppressors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">for false witnesses rise up against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">spouting malicious accusations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I remain confident of this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">I will see the goodness of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="content">be strong and take heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="content">and wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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