Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: "Love your neighbor as yourself." But if you favor some people over others, you are committing a sin. You are guilty of breaking the law. For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws.
(James 2:8-10 NLT)
Where love is concerned, by preferring one over another or loving this one and rejecting that one you fall to sin. It does not matter by which means you justify your actions, by hating one you are just as guilty as a person who hates all. You could keep all of God’s commandments save one and of that one keep it completely except for one instance and you are still as guilty as the person who breaks all of God’s commandments!
More hate is born out of judging others than anything else, yet we still do it. This is so ingrained into who we have become as a people that we judge others because they themselves judge others but we cannot see that we are just like them! Mercy is unknown by those who hate but hate doesn’t always take the form you expect. Hate can be disguised with kindness or being polite to the very person that consumes you because society says we should be polite and we want to be accepted by others. Still God knows our heart and it is our heart that gives away our true feelings. Only the blood of Jesus can make us clean and it is the Holy Spirit that convicts us by God’s own law given to His people, whether we know it or not. Those who choose to obey rather than sacrifice seek out God’s will by reading His Word, praying, and spending time alone with Him quietly waiting to hear His voice. Those are the ones who cry out to the Lord for mercy who shall receive it.
There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when He judges you.
(James 2:13 NLT)
