James 2:1-13 - Partiality Forbidden

¹ My brethren, do not, with respect for persons, be holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. ² For, if there enter into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings in gay clothing, and there enter a destitute man also, in soiled clothing, - ³ And ye eye him that hath on the gay clothing, and say, Thou, be sitting here, pleasantly, - and, unto the destitute man, say - Thou, stand, or sit there under my footstool, ⁴ Would ye not have been led to make distinctions among yourselves, and have become judges with wicked reasonings?

⁵ Hearken! my brethren beloved: - Hath not, God, chosen the destitute in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? ⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice? ⁷ Do not, they, defame the noble name which hath been invoked upon you?

⁸ If ye are, indeed, fulfilling, a royal law, according to the scripture - Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, nobly, are ye doing; ⁹ But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors! ¹⁰ For, a man who shall keep, the whole law, but shall stumble in one thing, hath become, for all things, liable, - ¹¹ For, he that hath said - Do not commit adultery, hath also said - Do not commit murder, - now, if thou dost not commit adultery, but dost commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law.

¹² So, be speaking, and, so, doing, as they who, through means of a law of freedom, are about to be judged; ¹³ For, the judgment, will be without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.