James 4:11
Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will raise you up.
Cross References
Luke 6:37And criticise not, and you can not be criticised. Condemn not, and you can not be condemned.
Romans 2:13for the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Romans 7:12So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Romans 14:10But why do you judge your neighbor, or indeed why do you discount your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;
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 →