For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in. If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,” haven’t you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

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Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges(A) with evil thoughts?

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Porque si en su congregación[a] entra un hombre con anillo de oro y vestido de ropa lujosa[b](A), y también entra un pobre con ropa sucia[c](B), y dan atención especial al que lleva la ropa lujosa(C), y dicen: «Siéntese aquí, en un buen lugar»; y al pobre dicen: «Tú estate allí de pie, o siéntate junto a mi estrado»; ¿acaso no han hecho distinciones entre ustedes mismos, y han venido a ser jueces con malos pensamientos[d](D)?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 O sinagoga.
  2. 2:2 O brillante.
  3. 2:2 O andrajosa.
  4. 2:4 O móviles.