James 2:9
But if you show maso panim (favoritism), you are chote'im (sinners) committing averos (transgressions) against the Torah. + 2:9 Dt 1:17
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
Cross References
John 8:9And the ones having heard were departing, one by one, beginning with the zekenim, and he was left alone with the isha standing before him.
John 16:8And having come, that one will expose and convict the Olam Hazeh concerning Chet and concerning Tzedek and concerning Mishpat:
Romans 7:7What then shall we say? That the Gezetz is considered as chet (sin)? Chas v'shalom! Nevertheless, I would not have experienced chet (sin) except through the Gezetz; for I would not have known chamdanut (covetousness, greediness) if the Torah had not said, LO TACHMOD + 7:7 Ex 20:17 (Thou shalt not covet).
Galatians 2:19For I, through the Torah, + 2:19 Ga 3:13 died in relation to the gezetz, + 2:19 Ro 7:4-6 so that I might live to Hashem. With Moshiach I have been talui al haetz + 2:19 Dt 21:23 (hanging on the tree).
1 John 3:4Everyone practicing chet also does averah, and chet is averah al HaTorah.
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 →