Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
James 2:4 - King James Version - American Edition are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of 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, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of his hands.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.