²² Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.^{(A) 23} Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴ and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵ But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,^(B) and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.^(C)

⁸ If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”^[a](A) you are doing right. ⁹ But if you show favoritism,^(B) you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.^{(C) 10} For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles^(D) at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.^{(E) 11} For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”^[b](F) also said, “You shall not murder.”^[c](G) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.