James 2:8-9 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:… 1. The law which is here called royal is the law of love and righteousness, prescribing what duty to every one pertaineth, and it containeth that part of the law which in the second table is delivered, teaching us to love without contemning, to prefer one without disdain of another, to regard the rich without neglect of the poor brethren. 2. This law of love is therefore called the royal law — (1) Because it is from a king, not mortal but immortal: even the King of kings and Lord of lords, even from God. 3. This law, furthermore, is called royal because it is like the king's highway. So the law of God, which is the law of love, is open, plain, without turnings, of all men to be done. 4. The law of love being this royal law, and for these causes so called, it enjoineth men to love their neighbours as themselves. (1) That God's law requireth love, who readeth the Scriptures and seeth not? (2) The persons whom we must love are our neighbours, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." (3) The manner how we must love is, as ourselves. And every man unfeignedly, fervently, continually loveth himself, so must we also love our neighbours. (R. Turnbull.) Parallel Verses KJV: If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: |
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