James 2:9

If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

Montgomery New Testament

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 are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.

10For if a man keeps the whole of the Law, and yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all.

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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 behind alone - and the woman in the middle of the court.

John 16:8"And he, when he comes, will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of judgment;

Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

Galatians 2:19For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

1 John 3:4Every one who commits sin commits also 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 →

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