Parallel Verses
Amplified
For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Holman Bible
For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy.
International Standard Version
For the one who has shown no mercy will be judged without mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
A Conservative Version
For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
American Standard Version
For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
An Understandable Version
For the person who has shown no mercy will be judged without mercy. [For] mercy wins out over condemnation.
Anderson New Testament
For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.
Bible in Basic English
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
Common New Testament
For judgment will be without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for he that has not shewed mercy, shall be condemn'd without mercy: while the merciful shall triumph at his trial.
Darby Translation
for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.
Godbey New Testament
For judgment is without mercy to him that shows no mercy; but mercy glorieth against judgment.
Goodspeed New Testament
For the merciless will be mercilessly judged; but mercy will triumph over judgment.
John Wesley New Testament
For judgment without mercy shall be to him that shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth over judgment.
Julia Smith Translation
For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.
King James 2000
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Modern King James verseion
For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Moffatt New Testament
for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy ??whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment.
Montgomery New Testament
For judgment is without mercy to the man who has showed no mercy. but mercy glories in the face of judgment.
NET Bible
For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.
New Heart English Bible
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Noyes New Testament
For the judgment shall be without mercy to him that showed no mercy. Mercy glorieth against judgment.
Sawyer New Testament
For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the judgment, will be without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For judgment without mercy shall be on him who shewed no mercy, and mercy glorieth against judgment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For there will be justice without mercy for him who has not acted mercifully. Mercy triumphs over Justice.
Webster
For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Weymouth New Testament
For he who shows no mercy will have judgement given against him without mercy; but mercy triumphs over judgement.
Williams New Testament
For merciless judgment will be the portion of the merciless man; yet mercy will triumph over judgment.
World English Bible
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Worrell New Testament
For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment.
Worsley New Testament
For he shall have judgement without mercy, that hath not shewn mercy: but mercy triumpheth over judgement.
Youngs Literal Translation
for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:13
Prayers for James 2:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Partiality Forbidden
12 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]. 13 For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment. 14 What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]
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Cross References
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor
Will cry out himself and not be answered.
Matthew 5:7
Job 22:6-10
“For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause,
And stripped men naked.
Matthew 6:15
Genesis 42:21
And they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty regarding our brother [Joseph], because we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us [to let him go], yet we would not listen [to his cry]; so this distress and anguish has come on us.”
Judges 1:7
Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather up scraps of food under my table; as I have done [to others], so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Psalm 18:25
With the kind (merciful, faithful, loyal) You show Yourself kind,
With the blameless You show Yourself blameless,
Psalm 85:10
Steadfast love and truth and faithfulness meet together;
Righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.
Jeremiah 9:24
but let the one who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me [and acknowledges Me and honors Me as God and recognizes without any doubt], that I am the Lord who practices lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back (change your way of thinking), turn back [in repentance] from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who forgives wickedness
And passes over the rebellious acts of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He [constantly] delights in mercy and lovingkindness.
Matthew 7:1-2
Matthew 18:28-35
Matthew 25:41-46
Luke 6:37
Luke 16:25
Ephesians 1:6-7
to the praise of His glorious grace and favor, which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved [His Son, Jesus Christ].
Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, being [so very] rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us,
James 5:4
Look! The wages that you have [fraudulently] withheld from the laborers who have mowed your fields are crying out [against you for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of
1 John 4:8-16
The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.]
1 John 4:18-19
There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love].