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


In Context

6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

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

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:

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

10 For whoever 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 you commit no adultery, yet if you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law.

James 2:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:9But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:9but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:9but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;