James 2:2-9

2For if someone comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor person dressed in filthy clothes also comes in,

3if you look with favor on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor person, “Stand over there,” or “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”

4haven’t you made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

5Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6Yet you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into court?

7Don’t they blaspheme the good name that was invoked over you?

8Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

9If, however, you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.