Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me.
James 2:4 - Modern King James Version Did you not make a difference among yourselves and became 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, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me.
How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands.
For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.
To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah.
Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.
But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who 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.