But ye have despised the poor. [a]Do not the rich oppress you by tyranny, and do they not draw you before the judgment seats?

Do not they blaspheme the worthy Name after which ye be [b]named?

[c]But if ye fulfill the [d]royal Law according to the Scripture, which saith, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:6 Secondly, he proveth them to be mad men: for that the rich men are rather to be holden execrable and cursed, considering that they persecute the Church, and blaspheme Christ: for he speaketh of wicked and profane rich men, such as the most part of them have been always, against whom he setteth the poor and abject.
  2. James 2:7 Word for word, which is called upon of you.
  3. James 2:8 The conclusion: Charity which God prescribeth cannot agree with the accepting of persons, seeing that we must walk in the King’s highway.
  4. James 2:8 The Law is said to be royal and like the King’s highway, for that it is plain and without turnings, and that the Law calleth everyone our neighbor, without respect, whom we may help by any kind of duty.

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