Partiality Forbidden

2 My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality. 2 For if someonea enters into your assemblyb in fine clothing with a gold ring on his finger, and a poor person in filthy clothing also enters, 3 and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, “Be seated here in a good place,” and to the poor person you say, “You stand or be seated therec by my footstool,” 4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts? 7 Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name ⌊of the one to whom you belong⌋d?

8 However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”e you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus* are convicted by the law as transgressors.