Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. New Living Translation Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” English Standard Version If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. Berean Standard Bible If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. Berean Literal Bible If indeed you keep the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. King James Bible If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: New King James Version If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; New American Standard Bible If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. NASB 1995 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. NASB 1977 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law, according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. Legacy Standard Bible If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. Amplified Bible If, however, you are [really] fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF [that is, if you have an unselfish concern for others and do things for their benefit]” you are doing well. Christian Standard Bible Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. Holman Christian Standard Bible Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. American Standard Version Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: Aramaic Bible in Plain English And if you fulfill The Written Law of God in this, as it is written: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”, you are doing well. Contemporary English Version You will do all right, if you obey the most important law in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves. Douay-Rheims Bible If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well. English Revised Version Howbeit if ye fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: GOD'S WORD® Translation You are doing right if you obey this law from the highest authority: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." Good News Translation You will be doing the right thing if you obey the law of the Kingdom, which is found in the scripture, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." International Standard Version Nevertheless, you are doing the right thing if you obey the royal Law in keeping with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as yourself." Literal Standard Version If, indeed, you fulfill royal law, according to the Writing: “You will love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; Majority Standard Bible If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. New American Bible However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. NET Bible But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. New Revised Standard Version You do well if you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” New Heart English Bible However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You are to love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. Webster's Bible Translation If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: Weymouth New Testament If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly. World English Bible However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. Young's Literal Translation If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Warning against Favoritism…7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called? 8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.… Cross References Leviticus 19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. Matthew 7:12 In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets. Romans 13:8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. James 2:19 You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that--and shudder. James 4:11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. Treasury of Scripture If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well: the royal. James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Thou. Leviticus 19:18,34 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD… Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Mark 12:31-33 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these… ye do. James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 1 Kings 8:18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. 2 Kings 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. Jump to Previous Acting Commandment Complete Fellow Found Fulfil Fulfill Greatest Holy Howbeit However Keeping Law Neighbor Neighbour Obedience Really Right Rightly Royal Scripture Supreme Thyself WritingJump to Next Acting Commandment Complete Fellow Found Fulfil Fulfill Greatest Holy Howbeit However Keeping Law Neighbor Neighbour Obedience Really Right Rightly Royal Scripture Supreme Thyself WritingJames 2 1. Do not regard the rich and despise the poor brothers;13. rather we are to be loving and merciful; 14. and not to boast of faith without deeds; 17. because faith without deeds is useless; 19. as is the faith of the demons; 21. however, Abraham displayed both faith and actions; 25. as did Rahab. (8) If ye fulfil the royal law.--Better paraphrased thus, If, however, ye are fulfilling the Law, as ye imagine and profess ye are doing, the royal law, according to the Scripture, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye are doing well; but . . . . Mark the touch of irony in the defence which St. James puts into the mouths of his hearers. It were certainly a sweet proof of neighbourly affection, that exemplified in James 2:3. The "royal," or "kingly law," is, of course, God's, in its highest utterance; and may be taken as an illustration of what a law really consists: viz., a command from a superior, a duty from an inferior, and a sanction or vindication of its authority. There is much confusion of thought, both scientific and theological, with regard to this; were it not so we should hear less of the "laws of nature," and divers other imaginary codes which the greatest legist of modern times has called "fustian." The sovereign law of love, thus expressed by the Apostle, is one so plain that the simplest mind may be made its interpreter; and the violation of it is at once clear to the offender.Verse 8 - What is the connection with the foregoing? Μέντοι is ignored altogether by the A.V. Translate, with R.V., howbeit if ye fulfill, etc.; Vulgate, tamen. According to Huther, St. James here meets the attempt which his readers might, perhaps, make to justify their conduct towards the rich with the law of love; whilst he grants to them that the fulfillment of that law is something excellent, he designates προσωποληπτεῖν directly as a transgression of the law. Alford thinks that the apostle is simply guarding his own argument from misconstruction - a view which is simpler and perhaps more natural. The royal law. Why is the law of love thus styled? (The Syriac has simply "the law of God.") (1) As being the most excellent of all laws; as we might call it the sovereign principle of our conduct (cf. Plato 'Min.,' p. 317, c, Τὸ ὀρθὸν νόμος ἐστὶ βασιλικός). Such an expression is natural enough in a Greek writer; but it is strange in a Jew like St. James (in the LXX. βασιλικός is always used in its literal meaning); and as the "kingdom" has been spoken of just before (ver. 5), it is better (2) to take the expression as literal here - "the law of the kingdom" (cf. Plumptre, in loc.). Thou shalt love, etc. (Leviticus 19:18). The law had received the sanction of the King himself (Matthew 22:39; Luke 10:26-28). Greek IfΕἰ (Ei) Conjunction Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. you really keep τελεῖτε (teleite) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 5055: (a) I end, finish, (b) I fulfill, accomplish, (c) I pay. From telos; to end, i.e. Complete, execute, conclude, discharge. [the] royal βασιλικὸν (basilikon) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 937: From basileus; regal, i.e. belonging to the sovereign, or preeminent. law νόμον (nomon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. stated in κατὰ (kata) Preposition Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined). Scripture, γραφήν (graphēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 1124: (a) a writing, (b) a passage of scripture; plur: the scriptures. A document, i.e. Holy Writ. “Love Ἀγαπήσεις (Agapēseis) Verb - Future Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. neighbor πλησίον (plēsion) Adverb Strong's 4139: Near, nearby, a neighbor. Neuter of a derivative of pelas; close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. Fellow. as ὡς (hōs) Adverb Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner. yourself,” σεαυτόν (seauton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4572: Of yourself. you are doing ποιεῖτε (poieite) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do. well. καλῶς (kalōs) Adverb Strong's 2573: Well, nobly, honorably, rightly. Adverb from kalos; well. 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