Question 337: Will The Whole World Be Converted Before The Second Coming?

Answer:

No; it means that the violation of any of YHVH's Laws places the offender in the category of sinners. The writer is arguing with proud, self-righteous people who take credit to themselves for not committing certain sins. He shows them that in committing other sins that are not accounted by men so disgraceful, they are nevertheless sinners against YHVH as surely as if they had committed the sins they condemn. A man who tells a lie has broken YHVH's Law and in that respect is under condemnation as the man is who commits a murder. Not that both are equally heinous, but that both stand on equality in not being able to plead innocence before YHVH. Both are sinners in need of mercy.