James 2:13
For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.
Cross References
Genesis 42:21And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.
Judges 5:27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Psalms 18:25With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.
Proverbs 21:13He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
Jeremiah 9:24but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.
Micah 7:18Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Matthew Henry on James 2:9-14
The Christian Law. ( a. d. 61.) 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so… Read the whole commentary →