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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: James 2</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Favoritism Forbidden: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 My brothers, then as believers <br>In our Lord Savior Jesus Christ, <br>Do not show favoritism. <br>2 Suppose a man attired fine, <br>Comes to your meeting wearing rich <br>Clothes and gold ring and a poor man <br>In shabby clothes also walks in, <br>3 If you show special attention <br>To man in fine clothes and do say, <br>'Here is a good seat for you, Sir', <br>But tell the poor man, 'You stand there' <br>Or 'Sit on the floor by my feet, ' <br>4 Have you not discriminated, <br>Among yourselves and turned judges, <br>With evil thoughts and unfairness? <br>5 O listen, dear brothers, ‘Hasn’t God <br>Chosen those poor in eyes of world, <br>To be the richer ones in faith, <br>And inherit God’s kingdom then, <br>As promised to those who love Him? <br>6 But you have insulted the poor. <br>Is not the rich who exploit you? <br>Aren’t they who drag you to the court? <br>7Aren’t they not ones who slander most <br>The noble name of God, the Lord? <br>8 If you follow the royal law, <br>That’s found in Holy Scripture well, <br>'You love your neighbor as yourself, '<br>Then, you are doing the right thing. <br>9 But if you show favoritism, <br>You sin and will be convicted, <br> By law of land as lawbreakers. <br>10 For whoever keeps the whole law, <br>And stumbles yet at just one point, <br>Is guilty of breaking it all. <br>11 'Do not commit adultery, ' <br>Also it is said, 'Don’t murder.' <br>If you don’t commit adultery, <br>But do commit then murder still, <br>You have become a lawbreaker. <br>12 So speak and act as those who are, <br>Going to be judged by the law. <br>That gives the freedom to all men, <br>13 Because the judgment sans mercy, <br>Will be then shown to anyone, <br>Who hasn’t been merciful to men. <br>So mercy triumphs o’er judgment! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faith and Deeds: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">14 What good is it, my brothers dear, <br>If man who claims to have good faith, <br>But has no deeds? Can faith save him? <br>15 Suppose a brother or sister <br>Is without clothes and daily food, <br>16 If one of you says to him/ her, <br>'I wish you well; keep warm, well-fed, ' <br>But does nothing about their needs, <br>What good is it by asking then? <br>17 Similarly, faith by itself, <br>Without any action, is dead. <br>18 But one will say, 'You’ve faith; I’ve deeds.' <br>Show me your faith without good deeds; <br>I’ll show my faith by what I do. <br>19 Then you believe there is one God. <br>The demons too believe like that. <br>20 You foolish man, do you want facts <br>That faith without deeds is useless? <br>21 Wasn’t our ancestor Abraham, <br>Considered righteous for what <br>He did, when he offered his son <br>Isaac upon the altar then? <br>22 His faith and actions worked as one; <br>His faith was made whole by his deed. <br>23And scripture was fulfilled that says, <br>'For, Abraham believed in God, <br>And credited with righteousness, ' <br>And he was called God's beloved friend. <br>24 You see a person justified <br>By what he does, not faith alone. <br>25 In the same way, was not Rahab <br>The prostitute turned righteous, <br>For what she did when she lodged spies, <br>And sent them off another way? <br>26 Just as the body sans spirit <br>Is dead, so’s faith without good deeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 7-9-2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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1 My brothers, then as believers 
In our Lord Savior Jesus Christ, 
Do not show favoritism. 
2 Suppose a man attired fine, 
Comes to your meeting wearing rich 
Clothes and gold ring and a poor man 
In shabby clothes also wa..."></div>
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