James 4:11
Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
10Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.
12There is one Lawgiuer, which is able to saue, and to destroy. Who art thou that iudgest another man?
Cross References
Psalms 140:11For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.
Luke 6:37Iudge not, and ye shall not be iudged: condemne not, and ye shall not bee condemned: forgiue, and ye shalbe forgiuen.
Romans 2:13(For the hearers of the Lawe are not righteous before God: but the doers of the Lawe shalbe iustified.
Romans 7:12Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.
Romans 14:10But why doest thou condemne thy brother? or why doest thou despise thy brother? for we shall all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying, wrath, contentions, backebitings, whisperings, swellings and discord.
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 →