Discovery BoxJames 2:4-6 
Context2:4 If so, have you not made distinctions 1 among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? 2 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! 3 Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor! 4 Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
1 tn Grk “have you not made distinctions” (as the conclusion to the series of “if” clauses in vv. 2-3).
2 tn Grk “judges of evil reasonings.”
3 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
4 tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.
