Verse 4

are you not then partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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  • John 7:24 : 24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.
  • Matt 7:1-5 : 1 Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. 2 For with the same judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you again. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and behold, a plank is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 How much less to Him who does not respect the persons of princes nor regard the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.
  • Jas 4:11 : 11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of 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 and the schemes you wrongfully imagine against me.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O 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 shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.
  • Jas 1:1-9 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greetings. 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials; 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 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, with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 8 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of low position rejoice in that he is lifted up; 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower 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 is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does He tempt anyone; 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. 19 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: 20 For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.