James 4:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[My] brethren, do not speak evil about or accuse one another. He that maligns a brother or judges his brother is maligning and criticizing the Law and judging the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but a censor and judge [of it].

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

Brothers and sisters, don’t say evil things about each other. Whoever insults or criticizes a brother or sister insults and criticizes the Law. If you find fault with the Law, you are not a doer of the Law but a judge over it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James 4:11 Cross References

Psalm 140:11

An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Luke 6:37

And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released:

Romans 2:1

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

Romans 2:13

for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified:

Romans 7:7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

1 Corinthians 4:5

Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

1 Timothy 3:11

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Titus 2:3

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

James 1:16

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

James 1:25

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

James 2:8

Howbeit if ye fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

James 5:10

Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.

James 5:7

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:9

Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

1 Peter 2:1

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,