James refers to actions that arise from favoritism, rather than to the disposition toward favoritism. τὴν πίστιν. Accusative direct object of ἔχω. The meaning of ἔχετε … τὴν πίστιν is less obvious than it may appear; though ἔχω frequently appears with πίστιν as its object (“have faith,” as in Matt 17:20 and many other locations), πίστιν is usually anarthrous, suggesting “faithfulness” in general. Here the sense presumably is somewhat more specific: “hold” or “adhere to the faith,” the