Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are 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.
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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Context Readings
Partiality Forbidden
8 If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point has become guilty of all of it.
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Cross References
John 8:9
Then those who heard it went away one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last, and Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing before him.
John 8:46
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 16:8
And when he comes, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Romans 3:20
Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7-13
What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
James 2:1-4
My brethren, show no favoritism as you hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:4
Everyone who commits sin also commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."