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1 My brothers, do not hold [views regarding] the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ [i.e., as tenets of Christianity] which show favoritism toward [certain] persons.
2 For, suppose a person comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothing and [then another] person comes in who is poor and dressed in shabby clothing.
3 Now if you people show special attention to the one wearing the fine clothing and say [to him], “You can sit here in this good seat,” and to the poor person, “You stand over there,” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”
4 are you not making class distinctions among yourselves and judging [people] from evil motives?
5 Listen, my dearly loved brothers; did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be wealthy in faith and to inherit the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
6 But you people have dishonored the poor person. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you to court?
7 Do they not speak against the honorable name by which you are called? [i.e., the name “Christ” or “Christian”].
8 However, you are doing well if you fulfill [i.e., obey] the royal law found in the Scriptures [Lev. 19:18], “You should love your neighbor the same way that you love yourself.”
9 But if you show favoritism toward [certain] persons, you are committing a sin and are convicted by the law [of God] as lawbreakers.
10 For, whoever observes the entire law [of God] and yet breaks one requirement [of it], becomes guilty of [breaking] all of it.
11 For God, who said [through Moses, Ex. 20:13f], “You must not be sexually unfaithful to your mate,” also said, “You must not murder.” Now if you are sexually faithful to your mate and yet murder [someone], you have become a lawbreaker.
12 So, you should speak and act as people who will be judged by a law that brings freedom.
13 For the person who has shown no mercy will be judged without mercy. [For] mercy wins out over condemnation.