James 2:8

New American Bible - revised edition

However, 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 him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another: “We are not doing right. This is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent. If we wait until morning breaks, we will be blamed. So come, let us go and inform the palace.”

Leviticus 19:18

Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the Lord, am your God.

Jonah 4:4

But the Lord asked, “Are you right to be angry?”

Jonah 4:9

But God said to Jonah, “Do you have a right to be angry over the gourd plant?” Jonah answered, “I have a right to be angry—angry enough to die.”

Matthew 22:39

The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 25:21

His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’

Matthew 25:23

His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’

Matthew 7:12

“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets. The Narrow Gate.

Romans 13:10

Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. Awareness of the End of Time.

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 6:2

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

Philippians 4:14

Still, it was kind of you to share in my distress.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

On the subject of mutual charity you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

James 1:25

But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.

James 2:19

You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or 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 of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.