James 2:10

For a person who has laid the Law, as a whole, to heart, but has failed in one particular, is accountable for breaking all its provisions.

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In The King James Version

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

In Context

9but, if you discriminate, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.

11He who said “You must not commit adultery” also said “You must not murder.” If, then, you commit murder but not adultery, you are still an offender against the Law.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:18For I tell you, until the heavens and the earth disappear, not even the smallest letter, nor one stroke of a letter, will disappear from the Law until all is done.

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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