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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

James 2
³ and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,"
⁴ have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?
⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
⁷ Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?
⁸ If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
⁹ But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
¹¹ For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
¹² So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
¹³ For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.