A Warning against Favoritism
James 2:4
In 9 translations
- BSB
- have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
- KJV
- Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
- WEB
- haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
- ASV
- do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
- LSV
- you did not judge fully in yourselves, and became ill-reasoning judges.
- YLT
- ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.
- DBY
- have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts?
- DRC
- Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts?
- GNV
- Are yee not partiall in your selues, and are become iudges of euill thoughts?
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include καὶ (“and”); NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: οὐ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 27th edition read οὐ; Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read καὶ οὐ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- οὐ διεκρίθητε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς καὶ ἐγένεσθε κριταὶ διαλογισμῶν πονηρῶν;
- RP2018
- καὶ οὐ διεκρίθητε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐγένεσθε κριταὶ διαλογισμῶν πονηρῶν;
- TR-Boyd
- καὶ οὐ διεκρίθητε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐγένεσθε κριταὶ διαλογισμῶν πονηρῶν;
- SCR1894
- και ου διεκριθητε εν εαυτοις και εγενεσθε κριται διαλογισμων πονηρων
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- John 7:24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
- Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
- Matthew 7:1–5“Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail…
- Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
- James 4:11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
- Malachi 2:9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
- Psalms 58:1Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
- Psalms 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
- James 1:1–27James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of…
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).