James 2:9
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
Young's Literal Translation
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 8:9and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders — unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 16:8and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;
Romans 7:7What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
Galatians 2:19for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
1 John 3:4Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the 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 →