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James 2:1

Beware of Personal Favoritism

1 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^athe Lord of glory, with ^bpartiality.

2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in¹ fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in² filthy clothes,

3 and you¹ pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,”

4 have you not¹ shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brethren: ^aHas God not chosen the poor of this world to be ^brich in faith and heirs of the kingdom ^cwhich He promised to those who love Him?

6 But ^ayou have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you ^band drag you into the courts?

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Now these people judged, and therefore acted the way they did because their value system generated it. What they did showed what was important to them, what was in their hearts. It is very likely that their heart was telling them, "Impress this person and you may win favor with him, and maybe you can get something from him"—the person in the fine clothing. The human heart is incredibly self-centered. You see it assigns a value on the basis of something that is external. Now I am not going to say that this is entirely wrong, but our judgment ought to go further than that.

Excerpted from Values and Conversion

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