James 2:9

but if you favor by appearance, you work sin, being convicted by the Law as transgressors;

Literal Standard 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

8If, indeed, you fulfill royal law, according to the Writing: “You will love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

10for whoever will keep the whole Law, but will stumble in one [point], he has become guilty of all;

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Cross References

John 8:9and they having heard, and being convicted by the conscience, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders—to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

John 16:8and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

Romans 7:7What, then, will we say? The Law [is] sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the Law had not said:

Galatians 2:19for I died through law that I may live to God;

1 John 3:4Everyone who is doing sin, he also does 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 →

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