James 2:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

Cross References

1 Kings 8:18

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.

Leviticus 19:18

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Jonah 4:4

And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

Jonah 4:9

And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.

Matthew 22:39

And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Matthew 25:21

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

Matthew 25:23

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

Matthew 7:12

All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

Galatians 5:14

For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Galatians 6:2

Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

Philippians 4:14

But you did well to have care for me in my need.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

James 1:25

But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

James 2:12

Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

James 2:19

You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.

James 4:11

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.