James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
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James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
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James 2:2
For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
James 2:3
And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
James 2:7
Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
Proverbs 22:2
The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
Psalms 15:4
Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.
Psalms 49:2
High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
Proverbs 22:16
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
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James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
Leviticus 19:15
Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
1 Timothy 5:21
I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.
James 2:8
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Jude 1:16
These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
Job 13:10
He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.
Proverbs 18:5
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
Proverbs 28:21
It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.
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John 7:24
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
John 8:15
You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.
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Psalms 58:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Psalms 58:2
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
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Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
Acts 15:9
Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
2 Chronicles 19:7
So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.
Acts 10:34
Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:
Romans 2:11
For one man is not different from another before God.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;
1 Peter 1:17
And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:
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James 4:11
Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
Matthew 7:1
Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.
Romans 14:10
But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
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Matthew 23:27
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
2 Corinthians 5:12
We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.
2 Corinthians 10:7
Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.
Mark 7:21
Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
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James 1:6
Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.
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Jude 1:22
And have pity on those who are in doubt;
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Psalms 94:20
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
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Psalms 94:21
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
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Luke 18:6
And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.
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Romans 14:23
But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
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James 1:8
For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.
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