James 2:9
but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Family 35 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 will keep the whole law, yet stumble in one point, has become guilty of all.
Cross References
John 8:9Now upon hearing this, and being convicted by their conscience, they began to go out one by one, starting with the older ones down to the least. So only Jesus was left, with the woman in the center.
John 16:8“Now when He comes he will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment:
Romans 7:7So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law in order to live to God.
1 John 3:4Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness as well; yes, 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 →