James 4:12
Good News Translation
God is the only lawgiver and judge. He alone can save and destroy. Who do you think you are, to judge someone else?

New Revised Standard Version
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor?

Contemporary English Version
or God who gave it. God is our judge, and he can save or destroy us. What right do you have to condemn anyone?

New American Bible
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save or to destroy. Who then are you to judge your neighbor?

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

lawgiver.

Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

able.

Matthew 10:28 And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Luke 12:5 But I will shew you whom you shall fear: Fear ye him who, after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you: Fear him.

Hebrews 7:25 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

who.

1 Samuel 25:10 But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters.

Job 38:2 Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?

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 9:20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

Romans 14:4,13 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. . . .

Context
Drawing Near to God
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. 13But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain.…
Cross References
Isaiah 33:22
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

Matthew 10:28
And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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.

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

James 4:11
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