1My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.2For if a gold-ringed man in shining clothing enters your synagogue, and then a poor man in filthy clothing also enters,3and you look upon the one wearing the shining clothing and say, 'You sit here well,' and say to the poor man, 'You stand or sit there under my footstool.'4Have you not judged among yourselves and become judges of evil reasonings?5Hear, my beloved brothers: has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those loving him?6Yet you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you and drag you into courts?7Do they not blaspheme the good name that was called upon you?8If, however, you keep the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well.9But if you show partiality, you work sin and are rebuked by the law as transgressors.10For whoever keeps the whole law yet stumbles in one point has become liable for all.11For the one who said, 'Do not commit adultery,' also said, 'Do not murder.' Now if you do not commit adultery but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.12Speak thus and do thus as those about to be judged through the law of freedom.13For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not done mercy; mercy boasts against judgment.