James 4:11
Good News Translation
Do not criticize one another, my friends. If you criticize or judge another Christian, you criticize and judge the Law. If you judge the Law, then you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, don't say cruel things about others! If you do, or if you condemn others, you are condemning God's Law. And if you condemn the Law, you put yourself above the Law and refuse to obey either it

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Speak.

Psalm 140:11 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

1 Timothy 3:11 The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

2 Timothy 3:3 Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,

Titus 2:3 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

and judgeth.

Matthew 7:1,2 Judge not, that you may not be judged. . . .

Luke 6:37 Judge not: and you shall not be judged. Condemn not: and you shall not be condemned. Forgive: and you shall be forgiven.

Romans 2:1 Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.

Romans 14:3,4,10-12 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not 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 from God.

speaketh evil of the law.

Romans 7:7,12,13 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

a doer.

James 1:22,23,25 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. . . .

Romans 2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Context
Drawing Near to God
10Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you. 11Detract 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. 12There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:1
Judge not, that you may not be judged.

Romans 14:4
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

James 1:16
Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

James 1:19
You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

James 2:8
If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:9
Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

James 5:10
Take, my brethren, for example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

James 4:10
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