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haven`t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
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Becoming an Unjust Judge
Commentators explain that when Christians show favoritism based on wealth, they are setting themselves up as 'judges.' This judgment is unjust because it uses worldly standards, like clothing and status, instead of godly ones. Scholars note a wordplay in the original Greek, linking the act of 'discriminating' directly to becoming a 'judge,' highlighting how partiality is a perversion of justice.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Are ye not then partial in yourselves? Among yourselves. Do you not show that you are partial?
And are become judges of evil th…
Are ye not divided in your own mind? (ου διεκριθητε εν εαυτοισ; ). First aorist (gnomic) passive indicative of διακρινω, to separa…
19th Century
Anglican
Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?—Or, as the sense, fully expressed, would be: “My b…
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The expressed condemnation of this practice is put in question form, but in a question that expects the readers to agree with the conclusion: “Have…
16th Century
Protestant
Are you not then partial in yourselves? Or, are you not condemned in yourselves? This may be read affirmatively as well as interr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Are you not then partial in yourselves That is, guilty of such partiality as must appear to yourselves, and your own…
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Those who profess faith in Christ as the Lord of glory must not show favoritism based on mere outward circumstances and appearances, in a manner in…