James 2:8

New English Translation

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:18

The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. If we wait until dawn, we’ll be punished. So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

Leviticus 19:18

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

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Jonah 4:4

The Lord said, “Are you really so very angry?”

Jonah 4:9

God said to Jonah, “Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said, “I am as angry as I could possibly be!”

Matthew 22:39

The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 25:21

His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful 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 answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 7:12

In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 6:2

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

Philippians 4:14

Nevertheless, you did well to share with me in my trouble.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

James 1:25

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he will be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

James 2:19

You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that – and tremble with fear.

James 4:11

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its 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 proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.