11 For the one who said “Do not commit adultery”[a] also said “Do not murder.”[b] Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:11 A quotation from Exod 20:14; Deut 5:18
  2. James 2:11 A quotation from Exod 20:13; Deut 5:17