*Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
James 2:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Are you not discriminating among your own and becoming critics and judges with wrong motives? American Standard Version (1901) do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Common English Bible Wouldn’t you have shown favoritism among yourselves and become evil-minded judges? Catholic Public Domain Version are you not judging within yourselves, and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts? |
*Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
*How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?* Selah.
*Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.