James 2:9-10

Vs. 9-10

9 But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders. 10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.

Vs. 9

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

When we show partiality/favoritism, we show prejudice which is a form of being a law offender.

When we show partiality/favoritism, we show prejudice which is a form of being a law offender.

Partiality - Scriptural expression generally used in a negative sense of partiality or favoritism shown to persons.

Favoritism - The showing of special favors; the state oor fack of being a favorite.

Prejudice - an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics

9 But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders. 10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.

When we show this type of behavior, we cause ourselves to break the law

Of course, at the same time the consequence which is categorically stated in v. 9 also holds good: Partiality is a sin, and indeed (this is the force of the participle) it is a sin against the whole law, not merely against a single commandment.

How would your life be if God was partial? Would you be one of His favorites?

Vs 10

For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.

This verse is supposed to prove the thesis that whoever sins against the one commandment of love (God) stands as a sinner before the forum of the whole law.

Whoever means just that...

Example 2 Sam. 11:14-17

This verse is supposed to prove the thesis that whoever sins against the one commandment of love stands as a sinner before the forum of the whole law.

In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.” 16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

David stumbled... “Whoever is liable for one is liable for all”

In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.” 16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

“Whoever is liable for one is liable for all”

6 And the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you so angry? And why do you look annoyed? 7 If you do well [believing Me and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it.” 8 Cain talked with Abel his brother [about what God had said]. And when they were [alone, working] in the field, Cain [d]attacked Abel his brother and killed him.

We are still flesh which means that we are still subject to forget but our job is to remember to repent and turn.

Romans 3:23 NASB95

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

The fact that our God is not partial, we must understand that sin is sin in the eyes of God. Not one is bigger then another.

Romans 6:23 NASB95

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans

Conviction -

the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law

the state of being convinced of error or compelled to admit the truth

the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law

the state of being convinced of error or compelled to admit the truth

If in our times of sin we allow our conviction to ignite correction, we can turn from and return to our stance in the center of God’s will.