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James 2:10
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
- KJV
- For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
- WEB
- For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
- ASV
- For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.
- LSV
- for whoever will keep the whole Law, but will stumble in one [point], he has become guilty of all;
- YLT
- for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one [point], he hath become guilty of all;
- DBY
- For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.
- DRC
- And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.
- GNV
- For whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Lawe, and yet faileth in one poynt, hee is guiltie of all.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read τηρήσῃ (“may keep”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τηρήσει (“will keep”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read πταίσῃ (“may stumble”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read πταίσει (“will stumble”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: τηρήσῃ πταίσῃ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τηρήσῃ πταίσῃ; Robinson–Pierpont read τηρήσει πταίσει.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ὅστις γὰρ ὅλον τὸν νόμον τηρήσῃ, πταίσῃ δὲ ἐν ἑνί, γέγονεν πάντων ἔνοχος.
- RP2018
- Ὅστις γὰρ ὅλον τὸν νόμον τηρήσει, πταίσει δὲ ἐν ἑνί, γέγονεν πάντων ἔνοχος.
- TR-Boyd
- Ὅστις γὰρ ὅλον τὸν νόμον τηρήσει, πταίσει δὲ ἐν ἑνί, γέγονε πάντων ἔνοχος.
- SCR1894
- οστις γαρ ολον τον νομον τηρησει πταισει δε εν ενι γεγονεν παντων ενοχος
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Matthew 5:18–19For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these…
- Deuteronomy 27:26‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).