⁹ But if you favor some people over others, you are committing a sin. You are guilty of breaking the law.

¹⁵ “Do not twist justice in legal matters by favoring the poor or being partial to the rich and powerful. Always judge people fairly.

A Warning against Prejudice

2 My dear brothers and sisters,^[a] how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others?

² For example, suppose someone comes into your meeting^[b] dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewelry, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes. ³ If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, “You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor”—well, ⁴ doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?

⁹ When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.

⁴ Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God.

²⁰ For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

⁸ And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.

⁴⁶ Which of you can truthfully accuse me of sin? And since I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

¹⁵ to execute judgment on the people of the world. He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”^[a]

¹⁹ For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God.