King James Version
James 2:9 in the King James Version says “But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.” — study this verse from James chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.”
James 2:9 · KJV
Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? blaspheme: or, revile, or, slander
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. he that: or, that law which
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“ye have respect to persons”
G4380to favor an individual, i.e., show partiality
“ye commit”
G2038to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc
“of”
G5259under, i.e., (with the genitive case) of place (beneath), or with verbs (the agency or means, through); (with the accusative case) of place (whither (
“the law”
G3551law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of moses (including the volume); also of the gospel), or figurat
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