Are ye not partial in [a]your selves, and are become Judges of evil thoughts?

[b]Hearken my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the [c]poor of this world, that they should be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

But ye have despised the poor. [d]Do not the rich oppress you by tyranny, and do they not draw you before the judgment seats?

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:4 Have ye not (which you ought not to do) by this means with yourselves judged one man to be preferred before another?
  2. James 2:5 He showeth that they are perverse and naughty Judges, which prefer the rich before the poor, by that that God on the contrary side preferreth the poor, whom he hath enriched with true riches, before the rich.
  3. James 2:5 The needy and wretched, and (if we measure it after the opinion of the world) the veriest abjects of all men.
  4. James 2:6 Secondly, he proveth them to be mad men: for that the rich men are rather to be holden execrable and cursed, considering that they persecute the Church, and blaspheme Christ: for he speaketh of wicked and profane rich men, such as the most part of them have been always, against whom he setteth the poor and abject.

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