James 2:8

Modern English Version

If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:18

The Lord said to my father David, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you had good intentions.

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right today. This is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, we will be found guilty. Let us go now and enter the city and tell the king’s household.”

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Jonah 4:4

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

Jonah 4:9

Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” And Jonah replied, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death.”

Matthew 22:39

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

Matthew 25:21

“His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of your master.’

Matthew 25:23

“His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of your master.’

Matthew 7:12

Therefore, everything you would like men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 13:10

Love works no evil to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 5:14

For the entire law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Philippians 4:14

Nevertheless you did well having shared in my affliction.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

As concerning brotherly love, you do not need me to write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

James 1:25

But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deeds.

James 2:12

So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

James 2:19

You believe that there is one God; you do well. The demons also believe and tremble.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. 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 race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.