James 2:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

New Living Translation
But if you favor some people over others, you are committing a sin. You are guilty of breaking the law.

English Standard Version
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

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

New American Standard Bible
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators.

NASB 1995
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

NASB 1977
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Amplified Bible
But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

Christian Standard Bible
If, however, you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Contemporary English Version
But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.

Good News Translation
But if you treat people according to their outward appearance, you are guilty of sin, and the Law condemns you as a lawbreaker.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you favor one person over another, you're sinning, and this law convicts you of being disobedient.

International Standard Version
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the Law as violators.

NET Bible
But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

New King James Version
but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

King James 2000 Bible
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convicted of the law as transgressors.

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

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

American King James Version
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

American Standard Version
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

A Faithful Version
But if you have respect of persons, you are practicing sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

Darby Bible Translation
But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

English Revised Version
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But if yee regarde the persons, yee commit sinne, and are rebuked of the Lawe, as transgressours.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But yf ye regarde one person more then another, ye commit sinne, and are rebuked of the lawe, as transgressours.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But yf ye regarde one person more then another, ye comit synne, and are rebuked of the lawe as trsagressours.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
But yf ye regarde one person more then another ye commit synne and are rebuked of the lawe as transgressours.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
but if you favor by appearance, you work sin, being convicted by the Law as transgressors;

Berean Literal Bible
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Young's Literal Translation
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

Smith's Literal Translation
And if ye make distinction of faces, ye work sin, being convicted under the law as transgressors.

Literal Emphasis Translation
However if you show partiality, you are committing sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But if you show favoritism to persons, then you commit a sin, having been convicted again by the law as transgressors.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But if you show partiality, you are sinning, and you are reproved by The Written Law as violators against The Written Law.

Lamsa Bible
But if you discriminate among men, you commit sin and you will be condemned by the law as transgressors of the law.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
But if you show partiality for persons, you work sin, and are 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.

Haweis New Testament
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Mace New Testament
but partiality is iniquity; and the law will convict the offender of transgression.

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.

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.
















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