But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts? Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name of the one to whom you belong[a]?

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”[b] you are doing well.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:7 Literally “that was called over you”
  2. James 2:8 A quotation from Lev 19:18