An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
James 4:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, *You shall not covet.*
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
But he who looks into the perfect Torah of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
However, if you fulfill the royal Torah, according to the Scripture, *You shall love your neighbor as yourself,* you do well.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,