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James 2:1
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KJ21
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
ASV
My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
AMP
My fellow believers, do not practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of partiality [toward people—show no favoritism, no prejudice, no snobbery].
AMPC
My brethren, pay no servile regard to people [show no prejudice, no partiality]. Do not [attempt to] hold and practice the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ [the Lord] of glory [together with snobbery]!
BRG
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
CSB
My brothers and sisters, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
CSBA
My brothers and sisters, do not show favouritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
CEB
My brothers and sisters, when you show favoritism you deny the faithfulness of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has been resurrected in glory.
CJB
My brothers, practice the faith of our Lord Yeshua, the glorious Messiah, without showing favoritism.
CEV
My friends, if you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, you won't treat some people better than others.
DARBY
My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons:
DLNT
My brothers, do not be holding the faith of  our Lord Jesus Christ of  glory with respect-of-persons.
DRA
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with respect of persons.
ERV
My dear brothers and sisters, you are believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. So don’t treat some people better than others.
EASY
My Christian friends, you must be kind to everyone. You trust the Lord Jesus Christ, who is great in heaven. So do not think that anyone is more valuable than any other person.
EHV
My brothers, have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without showing favoritism.
ESV
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
ESVUK
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
EXB
My dear brothers and sisters [C fellow believers], as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, never ·think some people are more important than others [show favoritism/partiality; Lev. 19:15; Deut. 10:17–18].
GNV
1 He sayeth, that to have respect of persons is not agreeable to Christ’s faith, 14 which to profess in words is not enough, unless 15 we show it also in deeds of mercy and charity, 21 after the example of Abraham. My brethren, have not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons.
GW
My brothers and sisters, practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ by not favoring one person over another.
GNT
My friends, as believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, you must never treat people in different ways according to their outward appearance.
HCSB
My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
ICB
My dear brothers, you are believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. So never think that some people are more important than others.
ISV
My brothers, do not let your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be tainted by favoritism.
PHILLIPS
Don’t ever attempt, my brothers, to combine snobbery with faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ! Suppose one man comes into your meeting well-dressed and with a gold ring on his finger, and another man, obviously poor, arrives in shabby clothes. If you pay special attention to the well-dressed man by saying, “Please sit here—it’s an excellent seat”, and say to the poor man, “You stand over there, please, or if you must sit, sit on the floor”, doesn’t that prove that you are making class-distinctions in your mind, and setting yourselves up to assess a man’s quality?—a very bad thing. For do notice, my brothers, that God chose poor men, whose only wealth was their faith, and made them heirs to the kingdom promised to those who love him. And if you behave as I have suggested, it is the poor man that you are insulting. Look around you. Isn’t it the rich who are always trying to “boss” you, isn’t it the rich who drag you into litigation? Isn’t it usually the rich who blaspheme the glorious name by which you are known?
JUB
¶ My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus, the glorious Christ, with respect of persons.
KJV
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
AKJV
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
LSB
My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
LEB
My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.
TLB
Dear brothers, how can you claim that you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, if you show favoritism to rich people and look down on poor people?
MSG
My dear friends, don’t let public opinion influence how you live out our glorious, Christ-originated faith. If a man enters your church wearing an expensive suit, and a street person wearing rags comes in right after him, and you say to the man in the suit, “Sit here, sir; this is the best seat in the house!” and either ignore the street person or say, “Better sit here in the back row,” haven’t you segregated God’s children and proved that you are judges who can’t be trusted?
MEV
My brothers, have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, without partiality.
MOUNCE
My brothers, stop showing favoritism as you live out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. ·
NOG
My brothers and sisters, practice your faith in our glorious Lord Yeshua Christ by not favoring one person over another.
NABRE
My brothers, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
NASB
My brothers and sisters, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
NASB1995
My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
NCB
My brethren, since you are believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, you must never practice favoritism.
NCV
My dear brothers and sisters, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, never think some people are more important than others.
NET
My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
NIRV
My brothers and sisters, you are believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. So treat everyone the same.
NIV
My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.
NIVUK
My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favouritism.
NKJV
My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.
NLV
My Christian brothers, our Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord of shining-greatness. Since your trust is in Him, do not look on one person as more important than another.
NLT
My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others?
NMB
Brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory, in respect of persons.
NRSVA
My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ?
NRSVACE
My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ?
NRSVCE
My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ?
NRSVUE
My brothers and sisters, do not claim the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory while showing partiality.
NTFE
My brothers and sisters, as you practice the faith of our Lord Jesus, the anointed King of glory, you must do so without favoritism.
OJB
My Achim b’Moshiach, you do not with your acts of maso panim (favoritism) hold to the [orthodox Jewish] emunah of the glorious Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. [DEVARIM 1:17; VAYIKRA 19:15; MISHLE 24:23]
RGT
My brothers, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with favoritism.
RSV
My brethren, show no partiality as you hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
RSVCE
My brethren, show no partiality as you hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
TLV
My brothers and sisters, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Yeshua the Messiah while showing favoritism.
VOICE
My brothers and sisters, I know you’ve heard this before, but stop playing favorites! Do not try to blend the genuine faith of our glorious Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, with your silly pretentiousness.
WEB
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.
WE
My brothers, you believe in our Lord, the wonderful Jesus Christ. So you must not think one man is better than another.
WYC
My brethren, do not ye have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, in acception of persons [in acception, or taking, of persons].
YLT
My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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