2007-01-06 16:26:15 · 8 answers · asked by mommy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The wording is slightly different from what you remembered but I believe this is the verse you are looking for:
James 2:10 (King James Version)
10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
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2007-01-06 16:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by Serendipity 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
James 2:10 and other verses, such as in Galatians, are talking about the futility of trying to keep the Old Testament Law, from which Jesus has liberated us. This is not an excuse to sin, but a vital point of doctrine which Paul and others went to great lengths to explain and reaffirm, in Galatians, Romans, Hebrews and elsewhere, but which very few Christians seem to understand nowadays.
Even the Old Testament does not say that if you've committed one sin you've committed them all, but that Jews must keep the Law. But Jews, like Gentiles, are saved from the curse of the Law (to quote Paul in Galatians) by faith in Jesus Christ.
We are to obey, but by the Spirit of God, not our own efforts.
2007-01-06 16:41:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. That isn't a Biblical doctrine. That is just a theory that was invented by Reformation theologians in order to justify the unbiblical doctrine of justification by faith alone.
The Bible does define witchcraft as a form of rebellion, and many people usurp that verse to say that Scripture equates sins.
For the James 2:10 folks, the Law of Moses is a horse of a different color, and only applied to Jews who had accepted the Mosaic covenant through circumcision. No sin was imputed from Adam to Moses, and no sin was ever imputed to the Gentiles.
2007-01-06 16:30:36 · answer #3 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what that means is, each sin is equal to each sin. not litterally that if you sin once you have sinned a thousand times or so.
in God's eyes to kill, lie, steal, have adultry is all equal, man/human has put ranking on them as less evil and more evil. to God and the Bible, a sin is a sin is a sin, no matter the sin.
2007-01-06 16:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
(James 2:10 KJV) For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
2007-01-06 16:30:49 · answer #5 · answered by Know it all (almost) 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
JAMES 2:10
If someone obeys all of God's laws except one, that person is guilty of breaking all of them
2007-01-06 16:29:49 · answer #6 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere does it say it that exact way, but it does tell you that one sin is as great as another.
2007-01-06 16:29:55 · answer #7 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-06 16:56:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋