8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, |You shall love your neighbor as yourself,| you do well.


In Context

5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, |You shall love your neighbor as yourself,| you do well.

9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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

James 2:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:8If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:8If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:8Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:8Howbeit if ye fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' — ye do well;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well: