James 2:10

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For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”
  • Deut 27:26 : 26 ‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Matt 5:18-19 : 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place. 19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

    12Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

  • Jas 2:8-9
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    8But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Gal 5:14
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    14For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • Gal 3:10
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    10For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

  • Lev 5:17
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    17Unknown trespass“If a person sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments which must not be violated(although he did not know it at the time, but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity

  • Jas 3:2
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    2For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

  • Rom 2:22-23
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    22You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

    23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

  • Gal 5:3-4
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    3And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Rom 13:8-10
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    8Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

    9For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

    10Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

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    1The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

  • Gal 2:17-18
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    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

  • Matt 5:18-19
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    18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

    19So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

  • Rom 3:19-20
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    19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 2:25-27
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    25For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

  • Num 5:6
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    6“Tell the Israelites,‘When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is found guilty,

  • Lev 5:4-5
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    4or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths–

    5when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things he must confess how he has sinned,

  • Jas 1:25
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    25But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

  • 1 Tim 1:9-10
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    9realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

    10sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

  • Lev 6:3
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    3or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin–

  • Luke 16:17
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    17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

  • Lev 4:27
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    27For the Common Person“‘If an ordinary individual sins by straying unintentionally when he violates one of the LORD’s commandments which must not be violated, and he pleads guilty

  • Rom 10:4-5
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    4For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

    5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”

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    28But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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    11Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

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    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

  • Rom 5:18
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    18Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

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    2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

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    20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,