have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
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