James 4:11
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge of it.
Revised King James New Testament
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In Context
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you to judge your neighbour?
Cross References
Luke 6:37Do not judge, and you shall not be judged: do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven:
Romans 2:13(For it is not the hearers of the law who are justified before God, but it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.
Romans 7:12Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good.
Romans 14:10Why do you judge your brother? or why do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you as I wish, and you shall not find me to be as you wish; lest perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, rivalries, slander, gossip, conceit, disorder:
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 →