James 2:9

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

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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 you keep the royal law which runs – ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself,’ you are doing right;

10For 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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Cross References

John 8:9When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest; and Jesus was left alone with the woman in the middle of the Court.

John 16:8And he, when he comes, will bring conviction to the world as to sin, and as to righteousness, and as to judgment;

Romans 7:7What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say ‘You must not covet,’ I should not know what it is to covet.

Galatians 2:19I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God.

1 John 3:4Everyone who lives sinfully is living in violation of God’s law. 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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