Love your neighbor as yourself

James 2:8 “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;”

James 2:9 “but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.”

This verse is speaking about partiality to the rich .

Its also easy to become partical to the poor. Maybe the rich can intimate.

Love is right favoritism is sin.

In Lev. 19:15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.”

you aren’t to show partiality to the rich or the poor.

There are rich pride people and poor proud people.

WE can become partical to a specific kind of person.

There was one guy who came to our church and said he had a great time the messages where great etc. etc. but I wouldn’t normally be around people that that.

Royal- a Regel, Kingly, excellent, superior, supreme.

1 Cor 12: 31 “But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.”

Its called that because this law is delegated by The King of Kings .

Its a law fit for a king.

The royal law was given in

Lev. 19:18 “You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”

And it was affirmed in

Matt 22:39 “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Gal. 5:14 “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.””

I had a manager say "don’t treat your neighbors the way you want to be treated but treat your neighbors they way they want to be treated.

But whats the problem with that statement ?

What if the way they want to be treated compromises the person you are in Christ.

The New King James Version Chapter 22

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”