3 and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, “Be seated here in a good place,” and to the poor person you say, “You stand or be seated there by my footstool,”
4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?
7 Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name of the one to whom you belong?
8 However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus are convicted by the law as transgressors.