Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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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Partiality Forbidden
8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well: 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law. 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
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Leviticus 19:15
Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
John 8:9
And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.
John 8:46
Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?
John 16:8
And he, when he comes, will make the world conscious of sin, and of righteousness, and of being judged:
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7-13
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;
Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.
James 2:1-4
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
1 John 3:4
Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
Jude 1:15
To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.