Sep. 28, 2025

Jas 2:2  For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine garments, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy garments, 

Jas 2:3  and you look with favor upon the one who is wearing the fine garments, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool," 

Jas 2:4  have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 

Jas 2:5  Listen, my beloved brothers: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him? 

Jas 2:6  But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? 

Jas 2:7  Do they not blaspheme the honorable name by which you have been called? 

Jas 2:8  If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"N1 you are doing well. 

Jas 2:9  But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 

Jas 2:10  For whoever keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 

Jas 2:11  For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"N2 also said, "Do not murder."N3 If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 

Jas 2:12  So speak and so act as men who are to be judged by the law of liberty. 

Jas 2:13  For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.