James 2:13
For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12So speak ye, and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.
Cross References
Genesis 42:21And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguished of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
Judges 5:27At her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and he lay lifeless and wretched.
Psalms 18:25And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.
Proverbs 21:13He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself and shall not be heard.
Jeremiah 9:24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.
Micah 7:18Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.
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 →