James 2:9
But if you favor certain people, you are committing sin, and you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
Unlocked Literal 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 8:9+ 8:9 See the note about Jhn. 7:53-8:11 above When they heard it, they left one by one, beginning with the oldest. Finally Jesus was left alone, with the woman who had been in the middle.
John 16:8When he comes, the Comforter will prove the world to be wrong about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment—
Romans 7:7What will we say then? Is the law itself sin? May it never be. However, I would never have known sin, if it were not through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law said, “You must 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 sins is committing acts of lawlessness, for 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 →