James 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Are you not discriminating among your own and becoming critics and judges with wrong motives?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Common English Bible

⁴ Wouldn’t you have shown favoritism among yourselves and become evil-minded judges?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ are you not judging within yourselves, and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts?

James 2:4 Cross References

Job 21:27

“Oh, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Psalm 109:31

For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.

Psalm 58:1

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge people fairly?

Psalm 82:2

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Malachi 2:9

so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.

Luke 18:6

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

John 7:24

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.