James 2:9 - English Majority Text Version 2009

but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But if you show servile regard (prejudice, favoritism) for people, you commit sin and are rebuked and convicted by the Law as violators and offenders.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

But when you show favoritism, you are committing a sin, and by that same law you are exposed as a lawbreaker.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if you show favoritism to persons, then you commit a sin, having been convicted again by the law as transgressors.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

James 2:9 Cross References

John 16:8

And when He comes, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

John 8:46

Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?

John 8:9

And those who heard [it] began to go out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman being in the midst.

Acts 10:34

And Peter, opening his mouth, said: "In truth I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality.

Romans 3:20

Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.

1 Corinthians 14:24

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an unlearned person comes in, he is reproved by all, he is discerned by all.

Galatians 2:19

For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

1 John 3:4

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly among them about all their ungodly deeds which they have committed impiously, and about all the harsh [words] which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."