James 2:12 Meaning and Explanation
“So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does James 2:12 Mean?
James draws the practical charge. Both in speech and in action, live as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty. The whole of life, what we say and what we do, is to be ordered by the awareness that a real reckoning lies ahead.
He again calls God's law the law of liberty, for obeying it is not bondage but the freedom to live as God made us to live. To remember the coming judgment is not meant to crush but to steady, keeping the reader honest in word and deed. The one who loves his neighbor and refuses favoritism speaks and acts as a free person, and need not dread the day when the law of liberty has its say.
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What does James 2:12 mean?
Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.