John Calvin Commentary James 2:4

"Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?" — James 2:4 (ASV)

Are you not then partial in yourselves? Or, are you not condemned in yourselves? This may be read affirmatively as well as interrogatively, but the sense would be the same, for he amplifies the fault in that they took delight and indulged themselves in so great a wickedness. If it is read interrogatively, the meaning is, “Does not your own conscience hold you convicted, so that you need no other judge?” If the affirmative is preferred, it is the same as if he had said, “This evil also happens, that you do not think that you sin, nor know that your thoughts are so wicked as they are.”