James 2:12
Good News Translation
Speak and act as people who will be judged by the law that sets us free.

New Revised Standard Version
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

Contemporary English Version
Speak and act like people who will be judged by the law that sets us free.

New American Bible
So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

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Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

Colossians 3:17 All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

2 Peter 1:4-8 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world. . . .

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

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James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Context
A Warning against Favoritism
11For he that said: Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty. 13For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.…
Cross References
Luke 4:18
The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

John 8:32
And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

Galatians 6:2
Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

James 1:25
But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 2:11
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