KJV 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.
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James 4:11
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
ASV American Standard Version
Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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;
Surrounding context — James 4
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 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.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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ΜὴG3361 · mēnotκαταλαλεῖτεG2635 · katalaleōto slanderἀλλήλων,G240 · allēlōnone anotherἀδελφοί·G80 · adelphosbrotherὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoκαταλαλῶνG2635 · katalaleōto slanderἀδελφοῦG80 · adelphosbrotherἢG2228 · ēorκρίνωνG2919 · krinōto judgeτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀδελφὸνG80 · adelphosbrotherαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heκαταλαλεῖG2635 · katalaleōto slanderνόμουG3551 · nomoslawκαὶG2532 · kaiandκρίνειG2919 · krinōto judgeνόμον·G3551 · nomoslawεἰG1487 · eiifδὲG1161 · dethenνόμονG3551 · nomoslawκρίνεις,G2919 · krinōto judgeοὐκG3756 · ounoεἶG1510 · eimito beποιητὴςG4163 · poiētēsdoerνόμουG3551 · nomoslawἀλλὰG235 · allabutκριτής.G2923 · kritēsjudge
Cross-references
1 Peter 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,Romans 2:1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.James 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.Luke 6:37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:Psalm 140:11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him].Matthew 7:1-2Judge not, that ye be not judged.Romans 14:10-12But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:Romans 7:12-13Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.2 Timothy 3:3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,1 Timothy 3:11Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.Romans 7:7What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.Romans 14:3-4Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.Titus 2:3The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;Romans 2:13(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.James 1:22-23But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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