and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --

and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

saying, 'On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him,

in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'

'And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'