Affirmative Action

and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all <FI>is<Fi> rich to all those calling upon Him,

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness. — read the full passage →

For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

`One statute is for you of the congregation and for the sojourner who is sojourning, a statute age-during to your generations: as ye <FI>are<Fi> so is the sojourner before Jehovah; — read the full passage →

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

a field being his, having sold <FI>it<Fi> , brought the money and laid <FI>it<Fi> at the feet of the apostles. — read the full passage →

These also are for the wise: --To discern faces in judgment is not good.

Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

for Jehovah your God--He <FI>is<Fi> God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;

one judgment is to you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.'

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And--the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.

And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner; — read the full passage →

but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;