James 2:9 (LSB)

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Job 37:14 (LSB)

Give ear to this, O Job, Stand and carefully consider the wondrous deeds of God.

James 2:8 (LSB)

If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

James 2:6-7 (LSB)

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and they themselves drag you into court? Do they not blaspheme the good name by which you have been called?

James 2:5 (LSB)

Listen, my beloved brothers: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

James 2:2-4 (LSB)

For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in bright clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the bright clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2:1 (LSB)

My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

James Outline (thus far):

* Audience (1:1)

* Teaching on Trials (1:2-4)

* Words to the Wise (1:5-11)

* Trial/Temptation Explained (1:12-18)

* Living the Word (1:19-27)

* Avoid Favoritism (2:1-13)

James 1:27 (LSB)

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:26 (LSB)

If anyone thinks himself to be religious while not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

James 1:25 (LSB)

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.