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NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 11

James 2:11

World English Bible Updated

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

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James 2:11 in context

James 2:8–14

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.

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

12

So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the 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?

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  1. Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18
  2. Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17

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