James 2:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ If you truly accomplish the sovereign law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbour 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 יהוה said to my father Dawiḏ, ‘Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My Name, you did well that it was in your heart.

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to each other, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent. And if we wait until morning light, then evil shall come upon us. And now, come, let us go and inform the house of the sovereign.”

Leviticus 19:18

‘Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am יהוה.

Leviticus 19:34

‘Let the stranger who dwells among you be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim. I am יהוה your Elohim.

Jonah 4:4

And יהוה said, “Are you right to be displeased?”

Jonah 4:9

And Elohim said to Yonah, “Have you rightly become displeased over the plant?” And he said, “I have rightly become displeased, even to death!”

Matthew 22:39

And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

Matthew 25:21

And his master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy servant. You were trustworthy over a little, I shall set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ ”

Matthew 25:23

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy servant. You were trustworthy over a little, I shall set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ ”

Matthew 7:12

“Therefore, whatever you wish men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Torah and the Prophets.

Romans 13:10

Love does no evil to a neighbour. Therefore, love is completion of the Torah.

Galatians 5:14

For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so complete the Torah of Messiah.

Philippians 4:14

Yet you did well in sharing in my pressure.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

And it is not necessary to write to you about brotherly love, for you yourselves are taught by Elohim to love one another,

James 1:25

But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah.

James 2:12

So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by a Torah of freedom.

James 2:19

You believe that Elohim is one. You do well. The demons also believe – and shudder!

James 4:11

Brothers, do not speak against one another. He that speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against Torah and judges Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of Torah but a judge.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,