The Sin of Partiality

2 ^(A)My brothers and sisters, ^(B)do not hold your faith in our ^(C)glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of ^(D)personal favoritism.

⁸ If, however, you ^(A)are fulfilling the ^[a]royal law according to the Scripture, “^(B)You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. ⁹ But if you ^(C)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole Law, yet ^(D)stumbles in one point, has become ^(E)guilty of all. ¹¹ For He who said, “^(F)Do not commit adultery,” also said, “^(G)Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do murder, you have become a violator of the Law. ¹² So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by ^(H)the law of freedom. ¹³ For ^(I)judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy ^[b]triumphs over judgment.

⁹ With it we bless ^(A)our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, ^(B)who have been made in the likeness of God; ¹⁰ from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way.

^11 (A)Do not speak against one another, ^(B)brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or ^(C)judges his brother or sister, speaks against ^(D)the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not ^(E)a doer of the law but a judge of it. ¹² There is only one ^(F)Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is ^(G)able to save and to destroy; but ^(H)who are you, ^[a]judging your neighbor?