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 \v 1 My brothers, do not hold to the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with favoring certain people.
-\v 2 If someone enters your meeting wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also enters a poor man in dirty clothes,
-\v 3 and you focus attention upon the person wearing fine clothes, and say, "Please sit here in a nice place," but you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit at my feet,"
-\v 4 are you not making judgments among yourselves, and becoming judges with evil thoughts?
+\v 2 Suppose that someone enters your meeting wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also enters a poor man in dirty clothes.
+\v 3 If you look at the person wearing fine clothes and say, "Please sit here in a nice place," but you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit at my feet,"
+\v 4 are you not making judgments among yourselves? Have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
 
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 \v 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith and and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
-\v 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Is it not the rich who oppress you, and are they not the ones who drag you into court?
-\v 7 Do not the rich blaspheme the good name by which you are called?
+\v 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Is it not the rich who oppress you? And are they not the ones who drag you into court?
+\v 7 Do they not insult the good name that you belong to?
 
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-\v 8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, as written in the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
+\v 8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
 \v 9 But if you favor certain people, you are committing sin, convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
 
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