James 2:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?”

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BSBPD

“have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo James 2:4 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
  2. Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
  3. Psalms 58:1Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
  4. Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
  5. Psalms 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
  6. 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.”
  7. Matthew 7:1“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
  8. John 7:24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
  9. James 1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.
  10. 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.

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