13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.


In Context

10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

11 For he who said, |Do not commit adultery,| also said, |Do not commit murder.| Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

James 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:13because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13For judgment is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy rejoices against judgment.