James 4:11

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

In Context

10be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

12one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?

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Cross References

Psalms 140:11A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence — evil hunteth to overflowing.

Luke 6:37'And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

Romans 2:13for not the hearers of the law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —

Romans 7:12so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

Romans 14:10And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;

2 Corinthians 12:20for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I — I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, 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 →

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