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¹¹For there is no favoritism with God.

¹My brothers, within the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, do not choose to show favoritism toward persons.

³⁴Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons.

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵You shall not do what is unjust, nor shall you judge unjustly. You shall not consider the reputation of the poor, nor shall you honor the countenance of the powerful. Judge your neighbor justly.

⁴are you not judging within yourselves, and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts?

²¹I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect Angels, that you should observe these things without prejudgment, doing nothing which shows favoritism to either side.

³⁴Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons. ³⁵But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

²¹Whoever shows favoritism in judgment does not do well; even if it is for a morsel of bread, he forsakes the truth.

¹⁷For the Lord your God himself is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a God great and powerful and terrible, who favors no person and accepts no bribe.

¹My brothers, within the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, do not choose to show favoritism toward persons. ²For if a man has entered your assembly having a gold ring and splendid apparel, and if a poor man has also entered, in dirty clothing, ³and if you are then attentive to the one who is clothed in excellent apparel, so that you say to him, “You may sit in this good place,” but you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit below my footstool,” ⁴are you not judging within yourselves, and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts?

³⁵But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for all believers, the Jew first, and the Greek.

⁹But if you show favoritism to persons, then you commit a sin, having been convicted again by the law as transgressors.

¹⁶These ones are complaining murmurers, walking according to their own desires. And their mouth is speaking arrogance, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

¹⁷But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness.

¹⁶I saw under the sun: instead of judgment, impiety, and instead of justice, iniquity. ¹⁷And I said in my heart: “God will judge the just and the impious, and then the time for each matter shall be.” ¹⁸I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals. ¹⁹For this reason, the passing away of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of both is equal. For as a man dies, so also do they die. All things breathe similarly, and man has nothing more than beast; for all these are subject to vanity. ²⁰And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together. ²¹Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

¹⁶And I instructed them, saying: ‘Listen to them, and judge what is just, whether he is one of your citizens or a sojourner. ¹⁷There shall be no favoritism to any persons. So you shall listen to the little as well as to the great. And you shall not accept anyone’s reputation, for this is the judgment of God. But if anything seems difficult to you, then refer it to me, and I will hear it.’