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James 2:9

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
James 2:9 · King James Version

In other versions

  • but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

    ASV

  • But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

    BBE

  • But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

    DBY

  • But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

    WEB

  • and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

    YLT

  • But if all of you have respect to persons, all of you commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

    ENG

  • But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

    WBT

  • But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

    BSB

In context

7Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

9But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11For 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.

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