James 2:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:13-14 : 13 "You shall not murder. 14 "You shall not commit adultery.
  • Deut 5:17-18 : 17 "You shall not murder. 18 "Neither shall you commit adultery.
  • Rom 13:9 : 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,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • Matt 5:21-28 : 21 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.' 22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca{"Raca" is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for "empty" and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.}!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna{Gehenna is another name for Hell that brings to mind an image of a burning garbage dump with dead bodies in it.}. 23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. 26 Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{Literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.} 27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;' 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 19:18 : 18 He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"
  • Lev 4:2 : 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:
  • Lev 4:13 : 13 "'If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
  • Lev 4:22 : 22 "'When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;
  • Ps 130:3-4 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with you, Therefore you are feared.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

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    10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.

  • Rom 2:21-23
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    21You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

    22You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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

  • Matt 5:21
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    21"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

  • Deut 5:17-18
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    17"You shall not murder.

    18"Neither shall you commit adultery.

  • Exod 20:13-15
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    13"You shall not murder.

    14"You shall not commit adultery.

    15"You shall not steal.

  • Rom 13:9
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    9For 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,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27"You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'

    28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • Matt 19:18
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    18He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'

  • Jas 2:12
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    12So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  • Lev 20:10
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    10"'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

    8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

  • Luke 18:20
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    20You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

  • Mark 10:19
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    19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"

  • Rom 2:12-13
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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

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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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    3Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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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.

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

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    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Gal 2:18
    71%

    18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

  • John 8:5
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    5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • Rom 7:10-11
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    10The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

    11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

  • Gal 5:14
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    14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • Num 35:17
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    17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Rom 7:3
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    3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • Exod 21:15
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    15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Lev 24:21
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    21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • John 7:19
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    19Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • Rom 10:5
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    5For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."