James 2:9

American Standard Version

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

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James 2:9 in other translations

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

James 2:9 · World English Bible

James 2:9 in context

  1. 7Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?
  2. 8Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
  3. 9but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
  4. 10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.
  5. 11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.