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


In Context

6 But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?

7 Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?

8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.

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

10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

11 For 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.

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 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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