James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Revised King James 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
10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.
Cross References
John 8:9And when they heard it, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest: and Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing there.
John 16:8And when he has come, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary, I would not have known sin, but by the law: for I would not have known about coveting unless the law had said, You shall not covet.
Galatians 2:19For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live to God.
1 John 3:4Whoever commits sin practices 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 →