James 4:11

4:11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. ¹  He who speaks against a fellow believer ²  or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. ³ 

James 2:9-10

2:9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. ⁴  2:10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails ⁵  in one point has become guilty of all of it. ⁶ 

James 2:12

2:12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom. ⁷ 

James 2:8

2:8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, ⁸  “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” ⁹  you are doing well.

James 1:25

1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ¹⁰  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ¹¹  will be blessed in what he does. ¹² 

James 2:11

2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ¹³  also said, “Do not murder.” ¹⁴  Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

James 4:12

4:12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? ¹⁵ 

James 2:6

2:6 But you have dishonored the poor! ¹⁶  Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

[4:11]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[4:11]  ² tn See note on the word “believer” in 1:9.

[4:11]  ³ tn Grk “a judge.”

[2:9]  ⁴ tn Or “transgressors.”

[2:10]  ⁷ tn Or “stumbles.”

[2:10]  ⁸ tn Grk “guilty of all.”

[2:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “a law of freedom.”

[2:8]  ¹³ tn Grk “according to the scripture.”

[2:8]  ¹⁴ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18 (also quoted in Matt 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14).

[1:25]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “continues.”

[1:25]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “this one.”

[1:25]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “in his doing.”

[2:11]  ¹⁹ sn A quotation from Exod 20:14 and Deut 5:18.

[2:11]  ²⁰ sn A quotation from Exod 20:13 and Deut 5:17.

[4:12]  ²² tn Grk “who judges your neighbor.”

[2:6]  ²⁵ tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.