James 2:10-13 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.… Hossein said to his aged grandfather Abbas, "Oh I grandfather, why are you reading the Gospel?" Abbas made answer, "I read it, oh! my son, to find the way to heaven." Hossein, who had received some instruction in an English school, smiling, said, "The way is plain enough; worship but the one true God, and keep the commandments." The man, whose hair was silver with age, replied, "Hossein, the commandments of God are as a bridge of ten arches, by means of which the soul might once have passed to heaven. But, alas I the bridge has been broken. There is not one among us who has not broken the commands again and again." "My conscience is clear," cried Hossein, proudly, "I have kept all the commandments; at least, almost all," he added, for he felt that he had said too much. "And if one arch of the bridge give way under the traveller, doth he not surely perish in the flood, though the other nine arches be firm and strong?" Parallel Verses KJV: For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.WEB: For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
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