James 2:8
Good News Translation
You will be doing the right thing if you obey the law of the Kingdom, which is found in the scripture, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

New Revised Standard Version
You do well if you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Contemporary English Version
You will do all right, if you obey the most important law in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves.

New American Bible
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

the royal.

James 2:12 So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Thou.

Leviticus 19:18,34 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord. . . .

Matthew 22:39 And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mark 12:31-33 And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. . . .

Luke 10:27-37 He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

Romans 13:8,9 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. . . .

Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

ye do.

James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

1 Kings 8:18 And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind.

2 Kings 7:9 Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day of good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the morning, we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go, and tell it in the king's court.

Jonah 4:4,9 And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live. . . .

Matthew 25:21,23 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. . . .

Philippians 4:14 Nevertheless, you have done well in communicating to my tribulation.

Context
A Warning against Favoritism
7Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you? 8If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well. 9But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18
Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Matthew 7:12
All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

James 4:11
Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James 2:7
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