James 2:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ But if you show favoritism toward [certain] persons, you are committing a sin and are convicted by the law [of God] as lawbreakers.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

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

Common English Bible

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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 does come, He will bring conviction to the world regarding sin [i.e., exposing it and producing guilt], regarding what is right [i.e., upholding godly standards], and regarding judgment [i.e., showing that sin condemns].

John 8:46

Which one of you can prove me guilty of sinning? If I tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

John 8:9

And when they heard [what He had said], they [all] left, one at a time, beginning with the oldest men. So, Jesus was left alone with the woman [still standing] there where she was.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter began to speak. He said, “I perceive that God truly does not show favoritism toward anyone,

Romans 3:20

This is because no human being can be considered right with God by [obeying] the requirements of a law. [Note: It is difficult to determine the exact sense in which “law” is used in these verses. It may be law generally, or the Law of Moses specifically. See Bruce, pages 52-58]. For the knowledge of what sin is comes from the Law of Moses.

1 Corinthians 14:24

But if everyone prophesies and someone comes [into the assembly] who is an outsider or an unbeliever, he will be convicted [of his sins] by everyone [i.e., who speaks the message in an intelligible language], and judged by everyone.

Galatians 2:19

For it was by means of [this system of] law-keeping that I [realized I] was dead. This was so I could find life through a relationship with God.

1 John 3:4

Every person who practices a life of sin is also breaking [God’s] law, for sin is law-breaking.

Jude 1:15

to bring judgment upon all [such people], and to convict every person of their ungodly behavior, which they have wickedly committed, and of all the evil things that [such] ungodly sinners have spoken against God.”