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1 My brothers, hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without showing favoritism.
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1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism.
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2 For suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring, dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.
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2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
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3 If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes so that you say, "Sit here in a good place," and yet you say to the poor man, "Stand over there," or, "Sit here on the floor by my footstool,"
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3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to the poor man, "You stand there" or "Sit on the floor by my feet,"
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4 haven't you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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5 Listen, my dear brothers: Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?
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5 Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
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6 Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
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6 But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
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7 Don't they blaspheme the noble name that you bear?
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7 Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
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8 If you really carry out the royal law prescribed in Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself , you are doing well.
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8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.
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9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
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9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
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10 For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of [breaking it] all.
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10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
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11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery , also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.
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11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
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12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.
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12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
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13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
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