James 2:8

World English Bible (2000)

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

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  • Lev 19:18 : 18 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
  • Gal 5:14 : 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
  • Phil 4:14 : 14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
  • Jas 2:12 : 12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
  • Lev 19:34 : 34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
  • 1 Kgs 8:18 : 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
  • 2 Kgs 7:9 : 9 Then they said one to another, "We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household."
  • Jonah 4:4 : 4 Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
  • Jonah 4:9 : 9 God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."
  • Matt 22:39 : 39 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
  • Matt 25:21 : 21 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
  • Matt 25:23 : 23 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
  • Mark 12:31-33 : 31 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 32 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
  • Luke 10:27-37 : 27 He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." 28 He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live." 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" 30 Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, 34 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.' 36 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?" 37 He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • Jas 2:19 : 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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    9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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    12So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

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    13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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    38This is the first and great commandment.

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    31The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

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    7Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

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    2Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

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    12Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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    11Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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    17"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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    12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

    14(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

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    23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

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    27He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."

    28He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."

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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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    8But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,

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    8No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

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  • Mark 12:33
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    33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

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    17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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    22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

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    17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.