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and you look-upon[a] the one wearing the shining clothing and say “You be sitting here honorably[b]”, and you say to the poor manYou stand there, or be sitting under[c] my footstool”, did you not make-distinctions among yourselves and become judges with[d] evil thoughts?

God Does Not Base His Actions On Human Distinctions. Love Your Neighbor

Listen, my beloved brothers— did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and inheritors of the kingdom which He promised to the ones loving Him?

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:3 That is, look with favor upon.
  2. James 2:3 Or, fitly, well, appropriately.
  3. James 2:3 Or, at. That is, under the shadow cast by it.
  4. James 2:4 Or, characterized by.

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