If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
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Gill's Exposition
If ye fulfil the royal law,.... Which is the law of love to men, without distinction of rich and poor, high and low, bond and free; and is so called, because it is the law of the King of kings; hence…
Barnes' Notes
If ye fulfil the royal law - That is, the law which he immediately mentions requiring us to love our neighbor as ourselves. It is called a “royal law,” or kingly law, on account of its excellence or…
Adam Clarke
The royal law - Νομον βασιλικον. This epithet, of all the New Testament writers, is peculiar to James; but it is frequent among the Greek writers in the sense in which it appears St. James uses it.…
The apostle, having condemned the sin of those who had an undue respect of persons, and having urged what was sufficient to convict them of the greatness of this evil, now proceeds to show how the…
Cambridge Bible
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture The Greek gives a particle which is not expressed in the English, "If, however, ye fulfil …" Nothing that the writer has said in disparagement of…
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