James 2:9
But if you show favoritism to persons, then you commit a sin, having been convicted again by the law as transgressors.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
10Now whoever has observed the whole law, yet who offends in one matter, has become guilty of all.
Cross References
John 8:9But upon hearing this, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, with the woman standing in front of him.
John 16:8And when he has arrived, he will argue against the world, about sin and about justice and about judgment:
Romans 7:7What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”
Galatians 2:19For through the law, I have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.
1 John 3:4Everyone who commits a sin, also commits iniquity. For sin is iniquity.
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 →