Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
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.
Williams New Testament
but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
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.
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:9
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Context Readings
Partiality Forbidden
8 If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well; 9 and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; 10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:15
'Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.
John 8:9
and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 8:46
Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
John 16:8
and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;
Romans 3:20
wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7-13
What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
1 Corinthians 14:24
and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,
Galatians 2:19
for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
James 2:1-4
My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 John 3:4
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,
Jude 1:15
to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'