James 2:9 Cross References

James 2:9

9: But if you pay special attention to the rich, you are committing a sin, for you are guilty of breaking that law.

"Always judge your neighbors fairly, neither favoring the poor nor showing deference to the rich.

Which of you can truthfully accuse me of sin? And since I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

And when he comes, he will convince the world of its sin, and of God's righteousness, and of the coming judgment.

But if all of you are prophesying, and unbelievers or people who don't understand these things come into your meeting, they will be convicted of sin, and they will be condemned by what you say.

My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim that you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people more than others?
For instance, suppose someone comes into your meeting dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewelry, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in shabby clothes.
If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, "You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor"--well,
doesn't this discrimination show that you are guided by wrong motives?

Those who sin are opposed to the law of God, for all sin opposes the law of God.

For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.

For when I tried to keep the law, I realized I could never earn God's approval. So I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ.

He will bring the people of the world to judgment. He will convict the ungodly of all the evil things they have done in rebellion and of all the insults that godless sinners have spoken against him."

Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

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