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Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?(A) However, if you fulfill the royal[a] law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.(B) But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 Royal: literally, “kingly”; because the Mosaic law came from God, the universal king. There may be an allusion to Jesus’ uses of this commandment in his preaching of the kingdom of God (Mt 22:39; Mk 12:31; Lk 10:27).