Goodspeed(i)
1 My brothers, do you try to combine faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with acts of partiality?
2 For if a finely dressed man with a gold ring comes into a meeting, and a poor man in shabby clothes comes in also,
3 and you pay attention to the man in the fine clothes and say to him, "Sit here; this is a good place!" and say to the poor man, "Stand up, or sit on the floor at my feet,"
4 have you not wavered and shown that your judgments are guided by base motives?
5 Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
6 But you humiliate the poor. Are not the rich your oppressors? Is it not they who drag you into court?
7 Is it not they who slander the noble name you bear?
8 If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,
9 but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers.
10 For anyone who obeys the whole of the Law but makes one single slip is guilty of breaking it all.