2. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;
3. and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool;”
4. haven’t you shown partiality amongst yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
5. Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
6. But you have dishonoured the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
7. Don’t they blaspheme the honourable name by which you are called?
8. However, if you fulfil the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself,” you do well.
9. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
10. For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
11. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12. So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.