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But you dishonor the poor! Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? Aren’t they the ones who slander Jesus Christ, whose noble name[a] you bear?

Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7 Greek slander the noble name.
  2. 2:8 Lev 19:18.

But (A)you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you (B)and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are (C)called?

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, (D)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

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