3. and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here, please,” while you say to the poor one, “Stand there,” or “Sit at my feet,”
4. have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs?
5. Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
6. But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?
7. Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?
8. However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10. For whoever keeps the whole law, but falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it.
11. For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not kill.” Even if you do not commit adultery but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12. So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.
13. For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
14. What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?