Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
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:
New American Standard Bible
If, however, you
King James Version
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Holman Bible
Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself,
International Standard Version
Nevertheless, you are doing the right thing if you obey the royal Law in keeping with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."
A Conservative Version
If ye indeed fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well.
American Standard Version
Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
Amplified
If, however, you are [really] fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself [that is, if you have an unselfish concern for others and do things for their benefit]” you are doing well.
An Understandable Version
However, you are doing well if you fulfill [i.e., obey] the royal law found in the Scriptures [Lev. 19:18], "You should love your neighbor the same way that you love yourself."
Anderson New Testament
If, however, you fulfill the law of highest excellence, according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.
Common New Testament
If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
Daniel Mace New Testament
If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.
Darby Translation
If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.
Godbey New Testament
If indeed you keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself, you do well.
Goodspeed New Testament
If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,
John Wesley New Testament
If ye fulfil the royal law (according to the Scripture) Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.
Julia Smith Translation
If yet ye complete the royal law according to the writing, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
King James 2000
If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:
Lexham Expanded Bible
However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
Modern King James verseion
If you fulfill the royal Law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye fulfil the royal law - according to the scripture which saith, "Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself" - ye do well.
Moffatt New Testament
If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;
Montgomery New Testament
If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.
NET Bible
But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
New Heart English Bible
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
Noyes New Testament
If indeed ye fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," ye do well.
Sawyer New Testament
If you keep indeed the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well;
The Emphasized Bible
If ye are, indeed, fulfilling, a royal law, according to the scripture - Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, nobly, are ye doing;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If indeed ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;
Webster
If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
Weymouth New Testament
If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.
Williams New Testament
But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;
World English Bible
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
Worrell New Testament
If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," ye do well;
Worsley New Testament
If ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, which saith, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.
Youngs Literal Translation
If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;
Themes
Brethren » Duty to » Abounding
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Abounding
Duty » To brethren » To neighbours
Duty » To brethren » Abounding
Law » What is the fulfilling of the law
Law » Who has fulfilled the law
the Law of moses » Called » Royal law
Love » Love, brotherly special teachings concerning » Abounding
Love » Special teachings concerning » Abounding
Love to man » Is the fulfilling of the law
Respect of persons » Partiality
Selfishness » Contrary to the law of God
Social duties » Brotherly love » Abounding
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Duty of neighbours
Topics
Interlinear
Seautou
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Partiality Forbidden
7 Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you? 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: 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18
Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:34
Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
1 Kings 8:18
But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;
2 Kings 7:9
Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.
Jonah 4:4
And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
Jonah 4:9
And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.
Matthew 22:39
And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
Matthew 25:21
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
Matthew 25:23
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
Mark 12:31-33
The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.
Luke 10:27-37
And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
Romans 13:8-9
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
Galatians 5:14
For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
Galatians 6:2
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
Philippians 4:14
But you did well to have care for me in my need.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
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.
James 2:12
Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
James 2:19
You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.