Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, 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.
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 ye are, indeed, fulfilling, a royal law, according to the scripture - Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, nobly, are ye doing; 9 But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors! 10 For, a man who shall keep, the whole law, but shall stumble in one thing, hath become, for all things, liable, -
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, Thou shalt neither respect the person of the poor, Nor prefer the person of the great, - In righteousness, shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
John 8:46
Which of you convicteth me of sin? If, truth, I speak, wherefore, do, ye, not believe me?
John 16:8
And, having come, He, will reprove the world - Concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment:
Romans 3:20
Inasmuch as, by works of law, shall no flesh be declared righteous before him, - through law, in fact, is discovery of sin.
Romans 7:7-13
What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! On the contrary, I had not discovered, sin, save through law, for even, of coveting, I had not been aware if, the law, had not kept on saying - Thou shall not covet;
1 Corinthians 14:24
But, if, all, be prophesying, - and there come in one who is unbelieving or unskilled, he is convicted by all, he is searched by all, the secrets of his heart, become manifest,
Galatians 2:19
For, I, through means of law, unto law, died, that, unto God, I might live: -
James 2:1-4
My brethren, do not, with respect for persons, be holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
1 John 3:4
Whosoever is committing sin, lawlessness also, is committing, and, sin, is, lawlessness;
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly - of all their works of ungodliness, which they committed in ungodliness, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him - sinners, ungodly!