But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers — the law itself becomes the accuser of the one who breaks it through discrimination, for partiality contradicts the law's inner principle of universal love. The hamartia (sin) of favoritism is not a trivial transgression but a violation of the law's essence. James establishes that there are no minor transgressions against love.

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