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Warning against Partiality

My brothers and sisters,[a] do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ?[b] For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, ‘Have a seat here, please’, while to the one who is poor you say, ‘Stand there’, or, ‘Sit at my feet’,[c] have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters.[d] Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:1 Gk My brothers
  2. James 2:1 Or hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without acts of favouritism
  3. James 2:3 Gk Sit under my footstool
  4. James 2:5 Gk brothers

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