James 2:4

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Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

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  • John 7:24 : 24 Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
  • Matt 7:1-5 : 1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. 2 For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you. 3 And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye? 4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye? 5 You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
  • Jas 4:11 : 11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.> Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
  • Ps 82:2 : 2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.
  • Jas 1:1-9 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth. 2 Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort; 3 Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope; 4 But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing. 5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him. 6 Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind. 7 Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord; 8 For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up; 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways. 12 There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him. 13 Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test: 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death. 16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made. 19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; 20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man. 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas. 23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass; 24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like. 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts. 26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value. 27 The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

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    5 Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

    6 But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

    7 Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

    8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

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    11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

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    7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

    8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

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    1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.

    2 For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.

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    9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

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    4 And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?

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    1 How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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    9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

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    12 For it is no business of mine to be judging those who are outside; but it is yours to be judging those who are among you;

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    2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

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    10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

    7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

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    22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

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    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

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    17 And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

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    10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

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    11 For one man is not different from another before God.

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    21 It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

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    27 But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

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    2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

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    5 To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

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    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

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    6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.