James 2:9
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
10And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.
Cross References
John 8:9But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 16:8And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment.
Romans 7:7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.
Galatians 2:19For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God: with Christ I am nailed to the cross.
1 John 3:4Whosoever committeth sin commmitteth also iniquity; and 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 →