If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](A) you are doing right.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:8 Lev. 19:18

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

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11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”[a](A) also said, “You shall not murder.”[b](B) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deut. 5:18
  2. James 2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deut. 5:17

11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

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