James 2:1 (LSB)

Passage

My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

Nearby Context

James 2:1 My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

James 2:2 For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in bright clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,

James 2:3 and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the bright clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "brothers", "hold", "glorious", "lord", "jesus", "christ", and "attitude". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "brothers", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "For if a man comes into your...", so "faith" and "brothers" should be read forward into that movement. In James context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "brothers" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.