Discovery BoxJames 2:9-12 
Context2:9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. 1 2:10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails 2 in one point has become guilty of all of it. 3 2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” 4 also said, “Do not murder.” 5 Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law. 2:12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom. 6
1 tn Or “transgressors.”
2 tn Or “stumbles.”
3 tn Grk “guilty of all.”
4 sn A quotation from Exod 20:14 and Deut 5:18.
5 sn A quotation from Exod 20:13 and Deut 5:17.
6 tn Grk “a law of freedom.”
