Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
New American Standard Bible
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by
King James Version
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Holman Bible
Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.
International Standard Version
You must make it your habit to speak and act like people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.
A Conservative Version
So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.
American Standard Version
So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
Amplified
Speak and act [consistently] as people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty [that moral law that frees obedient Christians from the bondage of sin].
An Understandable Version
So, you should speak and act as people who will be judged by a law that brings freedom.
Anderson New Testament
So speak, and so act, as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Common New Testament
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
Daniel Mace New Testament
speak and act as those, who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
Darby Translation
So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by the law of liberty;
Godbey New Testament
So you say, and so you do, as about to be condemned by the law of liberty.
Goodspeed New Testament
You must talk and act like men who expect to be judged by the law that treats men as free.
John Wesley New Testament
So speak ye and so act, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Julia Smith Translation
So speak ye, and so do, as about to be judged by the law of liberty.
King James 2000
So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.
Modern King James verseion
So speak and do as those who shall be judged by the Law of liberty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Moffatt New Testament
Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;
Montgomery New Testament
So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
NET Bible
Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.
New Heart English Bible
So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
Noyes New Testament
So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Sawyer New Testament
So speak and so do, as being about to be judged by the law of liberty.
The Emphasized Bible
So, be speaking, and, so, doing, as they who, through means of a law of freedom, are about to be judged;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
So speak, and so act, as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore, speak and act as men who are to be judged by the 'Law of Freedom.'
Webster
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Weymouth New Testament
Speak and act as those should who are expecting to be judged by the Law of freedom.
Williams New Testament
You must continue talking and acting like people who are to be judged by the law that treats them as free.
World English Bible
So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
Worrell New Testament
So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty.
Worsley New Testament
So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
Youngs Literal Translation
so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Partiality Forbidden
11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken. 12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free. 13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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Cross References
James 1:25
But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
Philippians 4:8
For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
James 2:8
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
2 Peter 1:4-8
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.