3. If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”
4. haven’t you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5. Listen, my dear brothers: 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?
6. Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
7. Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?