James 2:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being found guilty by the Torah 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

‘Do no unrighteousness in right-ruling. Do not be partial to the poor or favour the face of the great, but rightly rule your neighbour in righteousness.

John 16:8

“And having come, He shall convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment –

John 8:46

Who of you proves Me wrong concerning sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?”

John 8:9

And when they heard it, being reproved by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the older ones until the last. And יהושע was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.

Acts 10:34

And opening his mouth, Kĕpha said, “Truly I see that Elohim shows no partiality,

Romans 3:20

Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.

1 Corinthians 14:24

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

Galatians 2:19

“For through Torah I died to Torah, in order to live to Elohim.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Do not show partiality in right-ruling, hear the small as well as the great. Do not be afraid of anyone’s face, for the right-ruling belongs to Elohim. And the case which is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I shall hear it.’

1 John 3:4

Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment on all, to punish all who are wicked among them concerning all their wicked works which they have committed in a wicked way, and concerning all the harsh words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.”