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James 2:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Faith;   Neighbor;   Poor;   Religion;   Respect of Persons;   Rulers;   The Topic Concordance - Favoritism;   Sin;   Transgression;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Respect of Persons;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - James, the Letter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bible;   Canon of the New Testament;   Games;   Idolatry;   Law;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Formalism;   James ;   Law;   Reproof;   Respect of Persons;   Socialism;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Convict;   Infinite;   James, Epistle of;   Person;   Poor;   Respect of Persons;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If, however, you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
King James Version (1611)
But if ye haue respect to persons, ye commit sinne, and are conuinced of the Law, as transgressours.
King James Version
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
English Standard Version
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
New American Standard Bible
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators.
New Century Version
But if you treat one person as being more important than another, you are sinning. You are guilty of breaking God's law.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Contemporary English Version
But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.
Complete Jewish Bible
But if you show favoritism, your actions constitute sin, since you are convicted under the Torah as transgressors.
Darby Translation
But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Easy-to-Read Version
But if you are treating one person as more important than another, you are sinning. You are guilty of breaking God's law.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if yee regarde the persons, yee commit sinne, and are rebuked of the Lawe, as transgressours.
George Lamsa Translation
But if you discriminate among men, you commit sin and you will be condemned by the law as transgressors of the law.
Good News Translation
But if you treat people according to their outward appearance, you are guilty of sin, and the Law condemns you as a lawbreaker.
Lexham English Bible
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Literal Translation
But if you have partiality you work sin, being reproved by the Law as transgressors.
Amplified Bible
But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders.
American Standard Version
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Bible in Basic English
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
Hebrew Names Version
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
International Standard Version
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the law as violators.James 2:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
but if you accept persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors against the law.
Murdock Translation
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin; and ye are convicted by the law, as transgressors of the law.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But yf ye regarde one person more then another, ye commit sinne, and are rebuked of the lawe, as transgressours.
English Revised Version
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
World English Bible
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Weymouth's New Testament
But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But if ye taken persones, ye worchen synne, and ben repreued of the lawe, as trespasseris.
Update Bible Version
but if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
New English Translation
But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
New King James Version
but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
New Living Translation
But if you favor some people over others, you are committing a sin. You are guilty of breaking the law.
New Life Bible
But if you look on one man as more important than another, you are sinning. And the Law says you are sinning.
New Revised Standard
But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors!
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.
Revised Standard Version
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But yf ye regarde one person more then another ye commit synne and are rebuked of the lawe as transgressours.
Young's Literal Translation
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf ye regarde one person more then another, ye comit synne, and are rebuked of the lawe as trsagressours.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but partiality is iniquity; and the law will convict the offender of transgression.
Simplified Cowboy Version
But if all you do is ride by those less fortunate than you or who are different than you, then it is you who is the scoundrel and will be treated as such.

Contextual Overview

8If you really keep the royal law stated in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. 9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.10Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. 12Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom. 13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if: James 2:1-4, Leviticus 19:15

are: John 8:9, John 8:46, John 16:8, *marg. 1 Corinthians 14:24, Jude 1:15

transgressors: Romans 3:20, Romans 7:7-13, Galatians 2:19, 1 John 3:4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:17 - shall not Ezra 10:2 - We have trespassed Job 13:10 - reprove Psalms 51:4 - Against Malachi 4:4 - the law Luke 18:11 - as John 7:24 - General Acts 10:34 - Of a Romans 7:5 - which Galatians 3:10 - Cursed Philippians 3:9 - which is of the

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."
Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"
Deuteronomy 6:25
And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God just as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness."
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Isaiah 44:25
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
Isaiah 47:10
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.'
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, c] This is not doing well, but is a transgression of the law, as every sin is hence it follows,

and are convinced of the law as transgressors; which carries on a formal process against such persons; it accuses them of sin, and charges them with it; it proves it upon them, and convicts them of it; it pronounces them guilty, and curses them for it; and passes the sentence of condemnation and death upon them; wherefore care should be taken not to commit this sin, and so fall under the convictions and reproofs of the law.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin - You transgress the plain law of God, and do wrong. See the references on James 2:1.

And are convinced of the law as transgressors - Greek “By the law.” The word convinced is now used in a somewhat different sense from what it was formerly. It now commonly refers to the impression made on a man’s mind by showing him the truth of a thing which before was doubted, or in respect to which the evidence was not clear. A man who doubted the truth of a report or a proposition may be convinced or satisfied of its truth; a man who has done wrong, though he supposed he was doing what was proper, may be convinced of his error. So a man may be convinced that he is a sinner, though before he had no belief of it, and no concern about it; and this may produce in his mind the feeling which is technically known as conviction, producing deep distress and anguish. See the notes at John 16:8. Here, however, the word does not refer so much to the effect produced on the mind itself, as to the fact that the law would hold such an one to be guilty; that is, the law pronounces what is done to be wrong. Whether they would be personally convinced of it, and troubled about it as convicted sinners, would be a different question, and one to which the apostle does not refer; for his object is not to show that they would be troubled about it, but to show that the law of God condemned this course, and would hold them to be guilty. The argument here is not from the personal distress which this course would produce in their own minds, but from the fact that the law of God condemned it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. But if ye have respect to persons — In judgment, or in any other way; ye commit sin against God, and against your brethren, and are convinced, ελεγχομενοι, and are convicted, by the law; by this royal law, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; as transgressors, having shown this sinful acceptance of persons, which has led you to refuse justice to the poor man, and uphold the rich in his oppressive conduct.


 
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