but if ye have respect to persons The Greek gives a compound verb which is not found elsewhere, If ye be person-accepting.

ye commit sin The Greek is more emphatic, " It is sin that ye are working, being convicted by the Law." However generally decorous their lives might be, yet through this one offence they failed to meet the requirements of the Law. The way in which they dealt with rich and poor was, in the strictest sense of the term, a crucial test.

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