James 2:8
Greek Text— James 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
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You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.
the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”
Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.