James 4:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander;

Romans 2:1

Therefore, you are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment. For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the very same things.

James 5:9

Do not complain, brothers, about one another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates.

Luke 6:37

“Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. Paul’s Life as Pattern.

Psalm 140:11

Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.

Ephesians 4:31

All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

2 Timothy 3:3

callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,

1 Timothy 3:11

Women, similarly, should be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in everything.

Romans 7:7

What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified.

James 1:25

But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.

Titus 2:3

Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to drink, teaching what is good,

James 1:16

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers:

James 1:19

Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,

James 2:8

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

James 5:7

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

James 5:10

Take as an example of hardship and patience, brothers, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.