James 2:9

World English Bible (2000)

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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  • Lev 19:15 : 15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
  • John 8:9 : 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
  • John 8:46 : 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
  • John 16:8 : 8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
  • 1 Cor 14:24 : 24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
  • Jas 2:1-4 : 1 My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; 3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" 4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
  • 1 John 3:4 : 4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

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  • Jas 2:6-8
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    83%

    6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

    7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

    8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

  • Jas 2:10-13
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    10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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

    12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

    13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

  • Rom 2:11-13
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    11 For there is no partiality with God.

    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

  • Jas 2:1-4
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    1 My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

    2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

    3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Job 13:10
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    10 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

  • Mal 2:9
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    9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

  • Col 3:25
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    25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

  • Prov 24:23
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    23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

  • Rom 2:22-23
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    22 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

    23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

  • Lev 19:15
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    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Rom 3:9
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    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

  • Rom 2:27
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    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Gal 2:17
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    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Deut 16:19
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    19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

  • Gal 5:14
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    14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • Deut 1:17
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    17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

  • Prov 18:5
    70%

    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • 1 Cor 8:12
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    12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

  • 1 Cor 6:8
    69%

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • Eph 6:9
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    9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

  • Lev 6:2
    69%

    2 "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

  • Num 5:6
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    6 "Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;

  • Jer 7:5
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    5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • Rom 13:9
    69%

    9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • Rom 7:7
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    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • Gal 6:2
    69%

    2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

  • 2 Chr 19:7
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    7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes."

  • 1 Tim 1:9
    69%

    9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • Rom 2:17
    68%

    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

  • Rom 2:15
    68%

    15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

  • Jas 1:22
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    22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.