Yet you dishonored that poor man.(A) Don’t the rich oppress you and drag(B) you into the courts? Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?(C)

Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself,(D)[a] you are doing well.

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  1. James 2:8 Lv 19:18

But you have dishonored the poor.(A) Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?(B) Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](C) you are doing right.

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  1. James 2:8 Lev. 19:18