James 4:11
Do not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, speaks against law, and judges law, and if you judge law, you are not a doer of law but a judge.
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In Context
10be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.
12One is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?
Cross References
Psalms 140:11A talkative man is not established in the earth, || One of violence—evil hunts to overflowing.
Luke 6:37And do not judge, and you may not be judged; do not condemn, and you may not be condemned; release, and you will be released.
Romans 2:13for not the hearers of the Law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the Law will be declared righteous.
Romans 7:12so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Romans 14:10And you, why do you judge your brother? Or again, you, why do you set at nothing your brother? For we will all stand at the judgment seat of the Christ;
2 Corinthians 12:20for I fear lest, having come, I may not find you such as I wish, and I may be found by you such as you do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, slanders, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →