⁹ But if you show favoritism,^(A) you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.^{(B) 10} For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles^(C) at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.^{(D) 11} For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”^[a](E) also said, “You shall not murder.”^[b](F) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

¹¹ Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.^(A) Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister^[a] or judges them^(B) speaks against the law^(C) and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,^(D) but sitting in judgment on it.