יעקב 2:11

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

כִּי הָאֹמֵר לֹא תִנְאָף הוּא הָאֹמֵר לֹא תִרְצָח וְאִם־אֵינְךָ נֹאֵף וְאַתָּה רוֹצֵחַ הִנְּךָ עֹבֵר עַל־הַתּוֹרָה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
כי האמר לא תנאף גם הוא אמר לא תרצח ואם אינך נאף ואתה רוצח היה נהיית לעבר התורה׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he said that, or, that law, which said

Do not commit: Exodus 20:13, Exodus 20:14, Deuteronomy 5:17, Deuteronomy 5:18, Matthew 5:21-28, Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9

Now: Leviticus 4:2, Leviticus 4:13, Leviticus 4:22, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:8 - how then Deuteronomy 28:1 - to do all Psalms 51:4 - Against Matthew 5:19 - shall break Romans 7:9 - but Romans 9:31 - hath Galatians 5:3 - a debtor

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he that said, Do not commit adultery,.... That same lawgiver, who is but one, and is God, that gave out the seventh command, and forbids adultery,

said also, Do not kill; delivered the sixth command, which forbids murder.

Now if thou commit no adultery; do not break the seventh command;

yet if thou kill, break the sixth command,

thou art become a transgressor of the law; not of that particular precept of the law, the seventh command, for the contrary is supposed before, but of the sixth only; and yet by so doing, a man becomes a violator of the whole law; for the law is but one, though it consists of various precepts; and the breach of one precept, as well as of another, is the breach of the law: and besides, there is but one lawgiver, who has enjoined one command, as well as another, and whose legislative power and authority is despised and trampled upon by the violation of one command, as of another. This is the apostle's argument, and way of reasoning, proving the above assertion, that he that breaks the law in one particular instance, is guilty of the breach of the whole law.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill - That is, these are parts of the same law of God, and one is as obligatory as the other. If, therefore, you violate either of these precepts, you transgress the law of God as such, and must be held to be guilty of violating it as a whole. The penalty of the law will be incurred, whatever precept you violate.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. For he that said — That is, the authority that gave one commandment gave also the rest; and he who breaks one resists this authority; so that the breach of any one commandment may be justly considered a breach of the whole law. It was a maxim also among the Jewish doctors that, if a man kept any one commandment carefully, though he broke all the rest, he might assure himself of the favour of God; for while they taught that "He who transgresses all the precepts of the law has broken the yoke, dissolved the covenant, and exposed the law to contempt, and so has he done who has broken even one precept," (Mechilta, fol. 5, Yalcut Simeoni, part 1, fol. 59,) they also taught, "that he who observed any principal command was equal to him who kept the whole law;" (Kiddushin, fol. 39;) and they give for example, "If a man abandon idolatry, it is the same as if he had fulfilled the whole law," (Ibid., fol. 40.) To correct this false doctrine James lays down that in the 11th verse. James 2:11 Thus they did and undid.