James 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

James 2:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 19:18
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.
Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
James 2:12
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Matthew 22:39
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Romans 13:8-9
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

The apostle, having condemned the sin of those who had an undue respect of persons, and having urged what was sufficient to convict them of the greatness of this evil, now proceeds to show how the matter may be mended; it is the work of a gospel ministry, not only to reprove and warn, but to teach and direct. Col. 1:28; Warning every man, and teaching every man. And here, I. We have the law that i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. The Greek may be translated, “If, however, ye fulfil,” &c., that is, as Alford, after Estius, explains, “Still I do not say, hate the rich (for their oppressions) and drive them from your assemblies; if you choose to observe the royal law ... well and good; but respect of persons is a breach of that law.” I think the translation is, “If in very deed (or ‘indeed on the one hand’) ye fulfil the r…