June 26, 2022

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. ⁹ But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. ¹¹ For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. ¹² So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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James 2:8 : Cited from Lev. 19:18 James 2:9 : ver. 1 James 2:10 : Matt. 5:19; Gal. 3:10 James 2:11 : Cited from Ex. 20:14, 13 James 2:11 : Cited from Ex. 20:14, 13 James 2:12 : See ch. 1:25 James 2:13 : Job 22:6-11; Ps. 18:25, 26; Prov. 21:13; Ezek. 25:11-14; Matt. 6:15; 18:32-35; Luke 6:38

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