⁸ If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”^[a](A) you are doing right.

¹¹ For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”^[a](A) also said, “You shall not murder.”^[b](B) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”^[a](A) and he was called God’s friend.^(B)

⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: