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Jam_2:9 is in sharp contrast to Jam_2:8, calling the conduct of his readers, in opposition to their pretext, by its true name, and designating it directly as sin. The verb προσωποληπτεῖν is a complete ἅπ . λεγ .; James uses this word with reference to the exhortation in Jam_2:1. On ἁμαρτίαν ἐργάζεσθαι , see Mat_7:23; Act_10:35; Heb_11:33. Theile: gravius fere est quam ἁμαρτίαν ποιεῖν , ἁμαρτάνειν . For the sake of heightening this judgment, James adds the participial sentence ἐλεγχόμενοι κ . τ . λ .: being convicted by the law as transgressors. If the προσωποληπτοῦντες appealed to a law, it is precisely the law by which they are convinced as transgressors, so that they are without excuse. By ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου is meant not a single commandment, neither the above-mentioned law of love, nor specially a commandment forbidding respect of persons, as Deu_16:19 (Lange), but the law generally; so also παραβάται is general: not as transgressors of one commandment, but of the law generally.