James Chapter 2 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV James 2:1

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, `the Lord' of glory, with respect of persons.
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BBE James 2:1

My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
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DARBY James 2:1

My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons:
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KJV James 2:1

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
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WBT James 2:1


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WEB James 2:1

My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
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YLT James 2:1

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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James 2 : 1 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-13. - WARNING AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. Verse 1. - The translation is doubtful, two renderings being possible. (1) That of the A.V. and R.V., "Hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons." (2) That of the R.V. margin and Westcott and Hort, "Do ye, in accepting persons, hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory?" According to this view, the section commences with a question, as does the following one, ver. 14. According to the former view, which is on the whole preferable, it is parallel to James 3:1. The faith of our Lord. "The faith" here may be either (1) objective (tides quae creditur), as in the Epistle of St. Jude 1:3, 20; or . . .

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersII.(1) My brethren.--The second chapter opens with some stern rebukes for those unworthy Christians who had "men's persons in admiration," and, doubtless, that "because of advantage" to themselves. (Comp. Jude 1:16.) The lesson is distinctly addressed to believers, and its severity appears to be caused by the Apostle's unhappy consciousness of its need. What were endurable in a heathen, or an alien, or even a Jew, ceased to be so in a professed follower of the lowly Jesus. And this seems to be a further reason for the indignant expostulation and condemnation of James 2:14. Thus the whole chapter may really be considered as dealing with Faith; and it flows naturally from the foregoing thoughts upon Religion--or, as we interpreted their subject-matter, Religious Service.Have (or, hold) not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with (or, in) respect of persons.--"Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," wrote St. Paul to the proud and wealthy men of Corinth (2Corinthians 8:9), "that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich;" and, with more cogent an appeal, to the Philippians (James 2:4-7), "In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves: look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God"--i.e., Very God, and not appearance merely--nevertheless "thought not His equality with God a thing to be always grasped at," as it were some booty or prize, "but emptied Himself" of His glory, "and took upon Him the shape of a slave." Were these central, nay initial, facts of the faith believed then; or are they now? If they were in truth, how could there be such folly and shame as "acceptance of persons" according to the dictates of fashionable society and the world? "Honour," indeed, "to whom honour" is due (Romans 13:7). The Christian religion allows not that contempt for even earthly dignities--affected by some of her followers, but springing more from envy and unruliness than aught besides. True reverence and submission are in no way condemned by this scripture: but their excess and gross extreme, the preference for vulgar wealth, the adulation of success, the worship, in short, of some new golden calf. . . .