James 2: Favoritism Forbidden & Faith and Good Deeds

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- Favoritism is forbidden. This should apply to all cases.
- The reason for this is that LOVE should be applicable for all, not only for certain groups of people

14-26

- good deeds are byproduct of faith (i.e. real Christian faith). It is impossible to have faith but not do good deeds

faith --> good deeds
no faith -- ???

v24 - in Greek, the word "justified" here means only to prove justification that has been received before (when accepting Christ) to fellow humans. But the good deeds itself is never required to receive salvation nor do they affect your salvation.