# if you favor "give special treatment to" or "give honor to" # committing sin "sinning." That is, breaking the law. # you are convicted by the law as transgressors Here the law is spoken of as if it were a human judge. This can be translated using an active verb. Alternate translation: "the law itself convicts you of transgressing it" or "you are guilty of breaking God's law" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])