James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Text-Critical English NT
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 keeps the entire law but stumbles in one point has become guilty of it all.
Cross References
John 8:9When they heard this, they were convicted by their own consciences and began to go away one by one, starting with the older men. So Jesus was left alone, with the woman there before him.
John 16:8And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment:
Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Yet I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, “Yoʋ shall not covet.”
Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
1 John 3:4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; 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 →