James 2:8-11
English Standard Version
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, (A)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you (B)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point (C)has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said, (D)“Do not commit adultery,” also said, (E)“Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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James 2:8-11
International Standard Version
8 Nevertheless, you are doing the right thing if you obey the royal Law in keeping with the Scripture, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”[a] 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the Law as violators. 10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but fails in one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11 For the one who said, “Never commit adultery,”[b] also said, “Never murder.”[c] Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you become a violator of the Law.
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- James 2:8 Cf. Lev 19:18
- James 2:11 Cf. Exod 20:14; Deut 5:18
- James 2:11 Cf. Exod 20:13; Deut 5:17
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