James 2:9
but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
English Majority Text (NT)
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 keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Cross References
John 8:9And those who heard it began to go out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman being in the midst.
John 16:8And when He comes, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had said, “ You shall not covet.”
Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law, that I might live to God.
1 John 3:4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
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 →