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James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 2:9 · New Heart English Bible
James 2:9 in other translations
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
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In context
6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
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