4. What are you doing? You are making some people more important than others, and with evil thoughts you are deciding that one person is better.
5. Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! God chose the poor in the world to be rich with faith and to receive the kingdom God promised to those who love him.
6. But you show no respect to the poor. The rich are always trying to control your lives. They are the ones who take you to court.
7. And they are the ones who speak against Jesus, who owns you.
8. This royal law is found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” If you obey this law, you are doing right.
9. But if you treat one person as being more important than another, you are sinning. You are guilty of breaking God’s law.
10. A person who follows all of God’s law but fails to obey even one command is guilty of breaking all the commands in that law.