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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?  
7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are acalled?  
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, a“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;  
9 but if you1 show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as atransgressors.  
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Adam Clarke
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James 2:6

Do not rich men oppress you - The administration of justice was at this time in a miserable state of corruption among the Jews; but a Christian was one who was to expect no justice any where but from his God. The words , exceedingly oppress, and ̔ , drag you to courts of justice, show how grievously oppressed and maltreated the Christians were by their countrymen the Jews, who made law a pretext to afflict their bodies, and spoil them of their property.




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