Behold, I knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off against me.
James 2:4 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections? 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 knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off against me.
Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them.
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy to save his soul from the judges.
To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?
How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.
And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.
And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.
Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.