James Chapter 2 verse 10 Holy Bible
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one `point', he is become guilty of all.
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For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
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For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.
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For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
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For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.
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for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - In this verse the subjunctives τηρήσῃ πταίσῃ, are rightly read by the Revisors, with א, B, C. The Law was express on the need of keeping all the commandments; see Leviticus 19:37 (the same chapter to which St. James has already referred), Καὶ φυλάξωσθε πάντα τὸν νόμον μου καὶ πάντα τὰ προστάγματά μου καὶ ποιήσετε αὐτά). He is guilty of all. The very same thought is found in rabbinical writers (Talmud, 'Schabbath,' fol. 70); a saying of R. Johanan: "Quodsi racist omnia unum vero omitter omnium est singulorum reus." Other passages to the same effect may be seen in Schottgen, 'Horae Hebraicae,' vol. 1. p. 1017, etc.; and cf., 'Pirqe Aboth,' 4:15. Was it a false inference from St. James's teaching in this verso that led the Judaizers of Acts 15. to lay down the law "Except ye be circumcised after the customs of Moses ye cannot be saved"? "Whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all," might seem to suggest such an inference: "To whom," says St. James himself, "we gave no commandment" (Acts 15:24). (On the teaching of this tenth verse there is an interesting letter of Augustine's to Jerome, which well repays study: 'Ep.' 167.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) For whosoever shall keep . . .--Better, have kept the whole Law, but shall have offended in one, has become guilty of all. As a chain is snapped by failure of the weakest link, so the whole Law, in its harmony and completeness as beheld by God, is broken by one offence of one man; and the penalty falls, of its own natural weight and incidence, on the culprit.
