James 2:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

² For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, ³ and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, ‘Have a seat here, please’, while to the one who is poor you say, ‘Stand there’, or, ‘Sit at my feet’,^{[a] 4} have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?