James 2:8-13 (New International Version)
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If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself,"a1 you are doing right.
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But if you show favoritism,2 you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.3
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For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles4 at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.5
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For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"b6 also said, "Do not murder."c7 If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
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Speak and act as those who are going to be judged8 by the law that gives freedom,9
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because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.10 Mercy triumphs over judgment!
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