James:2:1-13
nasb@James:2:1 @My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
nasb@James:2:2 @For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,
nasb@James:2:3 @and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine 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,"
nasb@James:2:4 @have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?
nasb@James:2:5 @Listen, my beloved brethren- did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
nasb@James:2:6 @But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
nasb@James:2:7 @Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?
nasb@James:2:8 @If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, " YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well.
nasb@James:2:9 @But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
nasb@James:2:10 @For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
nasb@James:2:11 @For He who said, " DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, " DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
nasb@James:2:12 @So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
nasb@James:2:13 @For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
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