But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
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