James 2:9
But if you show partiality for persons, you work sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
In Context
10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one, is an offender against all.
Cross References
John 8:9But having heard him, and being convicted by their conscience, they went out, one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 16:8And when he has come, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Romans 7:7What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.
Galatians 2:19For, through law, I have died to law, that I might live to God.
1 John 3:4Every one that works sin, works also transgression of law: and sin is transgression of law.
Matthew Henry on James 2:9-14
The Christian Law. ( a. d. 61.) 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so… Read the whole commentary →