1. My friends, if you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, you won't treat some people better than others.
2. Suppose a rich person wearing fine clothes and a gold ring comes to one of your meetings. And suppose a poor person dressed in worn-out clothes also comes.
3. You must not give the best seat to the one in fine clothes and tell the one who is poor to stand at the side or sit on the floor.
4. That is the same as saying that some people are better than others, and you would be acting like a crooked judge.
5. My dear friends, pay attention. God has given a lot of faith to the poor people in this world. He has also promised them a share in his kingdom that he will give to everyone who loves him.
6. You ill-treat the poor. But isn't it the rich who boss you around and drag you off to court?
7. Aren't they the ones who make fun of your Lord?
8. You will do well, if you obey the most important law in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves.
9. But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.
10. If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all.
11. The same God who told us to be faithful in marriage also told us not to murder. So even if you are faithful in marriage, but murder someone, you have still broken God's Law.