James 2:8-11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
8 Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself,(A)[a] you are doing well. 9 But if you show favoritism,(B) you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.(C) 11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery,[b] also said, Do not murder.(D)[c] So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.
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James 2:8-11
Lexham English Bible
8 However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”[a] you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus[b] are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one point only has become guilty of all of it. 11 For the one who said “Do not commit adultery”[c] also said “Do not murder.”[d] Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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- James 2:8 A quotation from Lev 19:18
- James 2:9 Here “and thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are convicted”) which is understood as result
- James 2:11 A quotation from Exod 20:14; Deut 5:18
- James 2:11 A quotation from Exod 20:13; Deut 5:17
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