James 2:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to princes, 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 him from those who condemn him to death.

Psalm 58:1

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?

Psalm 82:2

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

Malachi 2:9

and so I make you despised and abased 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, “Hear what the unrighteous 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, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, 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.