James 2:10

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

Key Reflection

James 2:10 highlights that showing favoritism toward certain individuals over others is a form of sin. It underscores that such bias not only violates God's impartiality but also exposes one to the full judgment of the law, treating them as transgressors even if they consider themselves righteous.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 10. For whosoever shall keep the whole law. All except the single point referred to. The apostle does not say that this in fact ever did occur, but he says that if it should, and yet a man should have failed in only one particular, he must be judged to be guilty. The case supposed seems to be that of one who claimed that he had kept the whole law. The apostle says that even if this should be admitted for the time to be true in all other respects, yet, if he had failed in any one particular--in showing respect to persons, or in anything else--he could not but be held to be a transgressor.

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