James 2:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ 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

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

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.

John 16:8

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:

John 8:46

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

John 8:9

When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality,

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

1 Corinthians 14:24

But if all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who enters is reproved by all and called to account by all.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

Deuteronomy 1:17

You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

1 John 3:4

Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”