However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”[a] you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus[b] are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one point only has become guilty of all of it.

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  1. James 2:8 A quotation from Lev 19:18
  2. James 2:9 Here “and thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are convicted”) which is understood as result

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](A) you are doing right. But if you show favoritism,(B) you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.(C) 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles(D) at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.(E)

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  1. James 2:8 Lev. 19:18