James 2:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ If indeed you [really] fulfill the royal Law in accordance with the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as [you love] yourself, you do well. [Lev. 19:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

Common English Bible

⁸ You do well when you really fulfill the royal law found in scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ So if you perfect the regal law, according to the Scriptures, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," then you do well.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

James 2:8 Cross References

1 Kings 8:18

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name;

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another, “What we are doing is wrong. This is a day of good news; if we are silent and wait until the morning light, we will be found guilty; therefore let us go and tell the king’s household.”

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Jonah 4:4

And the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Jonah 4:9

But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.”

Matthew 22:39

And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 25:21

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things; I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 25:23

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things; I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 7:12

“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Philippians 4:14

In any case, it was kind of you to share my distress.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

James 1:25

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.

James 2:12

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

James 2:19

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.