James 2:4

American Standard Version (1901)

do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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  • John 7:24 : 24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
  • Matt 7:1-5 : 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Jas 4:11 : 11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam]. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
  • Ps 82:2 : 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? {{Selah
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.
  • Jas 1:1-9 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. 2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. 5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings. 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. 16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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  • Jas 2:1-3
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    1My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.

    2For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;

    3and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;

  • Jas 2:5-9
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    5Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

    6But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

    7Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?

    8Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

    9but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

    2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

    3And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

  • Luke 12:57
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    57And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

  • Job 13:10
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    10He will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality.

  • 1 Cor 6:4-5
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    4If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

    5I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

  • John 7:24
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    24Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

    8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.

  • Matt 7:1-3
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    1Judge not, that ye be not judged.

    2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.

    3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

  • Jas 5:9
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    9Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

  • Matt 9:4
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    4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

  • 1 Cor 6:1-2
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    72%

    1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

    2Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Mal 2:9
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    9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

  • Prov 24:23
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    23These also are [sayings] of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

  • 1 Cor 5:12-13
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    12For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?

    13But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

  • Ps 82:2
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    2How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? {{Selah

  • Rom 14:10
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    10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

    7For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

  • Jas 1:22
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    22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

  • Luke 16:15
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    15And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

  • Zech 7:10
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    10and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Rom 2:11
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    11for there is no respect of persons with God.

  • Rom 14:4
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    4Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

  • Acts 7:27
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    27But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5To respect the person of the wicked is not good, [Nor] to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?

  • Jas 5:6
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    6Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.