James 2:9

but if you accept persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors against the law.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

8And if the law of Aloha in this you accomplish, as it is written, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, you do well;

10For he who keepeth the whole law, and in one offendeth, of the whole LAW he is guilty.

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Cross References

John 16:8And when he hath come, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

Romans 7:7What then, say we the law is sin? Not so. But sin I had not learned (to know) but by the law: for I had not known concupiscence (to be sinful), but (by) the law, which hath said, Thou shalt not covet.

Galatians 2:19For I by the law to the law am dead, that unto Aloha I may live:

1 John 3:4But whoever committeth sin doeth iniquity; for all sin is iniquity.

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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