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If so, have you not made distinctions[a] among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?[b] Listen, my dear brothers and sisters![c] Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor![d] Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:4 tn Grk “have you not made distinctions” (as the conclusion to the series of “if” clauses in vv. 2-3).
  2. James 2:4 tn Grk “judges of evil reasonings.”
  3. James 2:5 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
  4. James 2:6 tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.