James 2:4

World English Bible (2000)

haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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  • John 7:24 : 24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
  • Matt 7:1-5 : 1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
  • Jas 4:11 : 11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 "Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
  • Ps 82:2 : 2 "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.
  • Jas 1:1-9 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits. 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. 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 unstained by the world.

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    1 My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

    2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

    3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

  • Jas 2:5-9
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    5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

    6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

    7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

    8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

    9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  • Jas 4:11
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  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Luke 12:57
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    57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

  • Job 13:10
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    4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

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    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

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    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

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    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

    2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

    3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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    9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

  • Matt 9:4
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    4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

  • 1 Cor 6:1-2
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    1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

    2 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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    9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

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    23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

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    12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

    13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

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    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

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    22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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    15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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    6 and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

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    10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

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    11 For there is no partiality with God.

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    4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

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    27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

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    2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

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    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

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    6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.