“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
⛓ Read Leviticus 19 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
James condemns showing partiality (prosopolempsia) in the assembly. Leviticus 19:15 is the foundational prohibition: 'you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.' The verbal and thematic correspondence is strong, and the same chapter supplies the love-command James quotes in v.8.
High confidence'Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment' (v.24) echoes the Holiness Code's command, 'you shall do no injustice in judgment... in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.' The pairing of forbidden partial judgment with commanded righteous judgment matches Leviticus closely. High coherence; the verse recurs as a juridical touchstone in this chapter (cf. vv.51).
High confidenceThe charge to observe these things 'without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality' reflects the Holiness Code's command to do no injustice in judgment, neither favoring the poor nor deferring to the great. Impartial judgment is the Levitical standard Paul imposes on church discipline.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's protest, 'Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?', echoes the Torah's demand for righteous, impartial judgment. Moderate Thematic Coherence (legal due process violated); lower Volume since there is no verbal borrowing, only the shared juridical ideal.
Medium confidenceThe Holiness Code's demand for righteous, unbiased judgment ('you shall not be partial... but in righteousness shall you judge') underlies Jesus' critique of hypocritical, self-exempting judging.
Medium confidence