James 2:9

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James 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?

8 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

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James 2:1

My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.

James 2:2

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

James 2:3

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

James 2:4

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Leviticus 19:15

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

John 8:9

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

John 8:46

Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?

John 16:8

And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

1 Corinthians 14:24

But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”

Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Romans 7:7

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Romans 7:10

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Romans 7:13

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

1 John 3:4

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.