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1 My brethren, let not your christian profession be accompanied with partiality. 2 when any one, adorn'd with a gold ring, and a splendid dress, enters into your assembly; and a poor man comes in meanly habited: 3 if you should respectfully say to the suit of fine cloths, sit you there, that's for quality; and to the poor man, stand thou there, or place your self at my feet: 4 have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle? 5 consider, my dear brethren, has not God chose the poor of this world to be rich by faith, and to inherit the kingdom he has promised to those who love him? 6 but you, who despise the poor, are not you oppress'd by the rich? is it not they who drag you to their tribunals? 7 they who blaspheme that sacred name by which you are distinguish'd? James 2:1-7, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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