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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

James 2:8 → Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Echo

Later text

James 2:8BSB

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 10:18-19BSB

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:15BSB

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:17BSB

You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:18BSB

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Significance

James designates Leviticus 19:18 as the "royal law," elevating neighbor-love to supreme status within Torah ethics. This hermeneutical move mirrors Jesus's identification of this command as second greatest (Matt 22:39) and Paul's declaration that it fulfills the whole law (Gal 5:14). By framing partiality as violation of this royal law, James demonstrates how specific ethical failures contradict the fundamental principle of covenant love. The law is not fragmented commands but unified by the relational imperative to love neighbor impartially, reflecting God's own impartial character (Deut 10:17-19).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy

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James 2:8 to Leviticus 19:18