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

(A) You will do all right, if you obey the most important law[a] in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves. But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.

10 (B) If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all.

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  1. 2.8 most important law: The Greek text has “royal law,” meaning the one given by the king (that is, God).