"If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law."
We show partiality because of a failure to love. If we treat some people well and some people poorly, we are revealing that we don't love either of them. We are sinning and stand convicted under the law because we have failed to fulfill what the passage calls "the royal law." We show partiality because we love ourselves, and we don't love others (or at least we don't love them as we love ourselves). If we think this to be a light matter, we should be reminded that if we break one law, we stand convicted by the law.
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