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James 2:10Jas.2.10

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.

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Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car quiconque observe toute la loi, mais pèche contre un seul commandement, devient coupable de tous.

KJV

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.

Patristic reading

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  • Anonymous

    Exhortation to the Bride of Christ

    It is written: "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it" (James 2:10). Adam sinned once and died; do you think you can live while committing often what killed another when he did it once? Do you think he committed a great crime and deserv…
  • Leporius

    Little Book of Emendation

    saying: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10); offending not in few but in great things, I made myself guilty in everything from the whole heart. I have shown love to those who persecuted me, but not without reaso…
  • Saint Isidore of Seville

    On the Order of Creatures

    t kill." So if you do not commit adultery but you do kill, you have become a transgressor of the law James 2:10. Some, however, who are not involved in these serious crimes, are reserved for the final divine judgment and leave this world, yet they still face the sentence of etern…

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