Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
New American Standard Bible
But if you
King James Version
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Holman Bible
But if you show favoritism,
International Standard Version
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the Law as violators.
A Conservative Version
But if ye respect personages, ye work sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
American Standard Version
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Amplified
But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders.
An Understandable Version
But if you show favoritism toward [certain] persons, you are committing a sin and are convicted by the law [of God] as lawbreakers.
Anderson New Testament
But if you show partiality for persons, you work sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Bible in Basic English
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
Common New Testament
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but partiality is iniquity; and the law will convict the offender of transgression.
Darby Translation
But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Godbey New Testament
But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Goodspeed New Testament
but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers.
John Wesley New Testament
But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Julia Smith Translation
And if ye make distinction of faces, ye work sin, being convicted under the law as transgressors.
King James 2000
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convicted of the law as transgressors.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Modern King James verseion
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.
Moffatt New Testament
but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression.
Montgomery New Testament
If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.
NET Bible
But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
New Heart English Bible
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Noyes New Testament
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Sawyer New Testament
but if you respect persons, you commit sin, convicted by the law as transgressors.
The Emphasized Bible
But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.
Webster
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Weymouth New Testament
But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.
World English Bible
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Worrell New Testament
but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Worsley New Testament
But if ye partially respect persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Youngs Literal Translation
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:9
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Context Readings
Partiality Forbidden
8 But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right; 9 but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever obeys the whole law, except to slip in a single instance, is guilty of breaking it all.
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Cross References
John 8:9
Having heard, they began to leave one by one, starting with the eldest, until only Jesus was left with the woman.
John 8:46
Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 16:8
"And when He comes, He will bring conviction to worldly people about sin and uprightness and judgment;
Romans 3:20
Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.
Romans 7:7-13
What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or illiterate man comes in, he is convinced of his sins by all, he is closely questioned by all,
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.
James 2:1-4
My brothers, stop trying to maintain your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious presence of God on earth, along with acts of partiality to certain ones.
1 John 3:4
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment upon all, to convict all the godless of their godless deeds which in their godlessness they have committed, and of all the harsh things that godless sinners have said against Him."