James 4:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ καταλαλεῖτε ἀλλήλων, ἀδελφοί. Ὁ καταλαλῶν ἀδελφοῦ, καὶ κρίνων τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, καταλαλεῖ νόμου, καὶ κρίνει νόμον: εἰ δὲ νόμον κρίνεις, οὐκ εἶ ποιητὴς νόμου, ἀλλὰ κριτής.

Transliteration

Not katalaleite one another, adelphoi. The one katalalōn adelphou, and krinōn the adelphon of him, katalalei nomou, and krinei nomon: if de nomon krineis, not you ei poiētēs nomou, but kritēs.

Grammar Details

• *katalaleite*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - speak evil of/slander
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers/brethren
• *katalalōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - speaking evil of/slandering
• *adelphou*: genitive, masculine, singular - brother
• *krinōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - judging
• *adelphon*: accusative, masculine, singular - brother
• *katalalei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - speaks evil of/slanders
• *nomou*: genitive, masculine, singular - law
• *krinei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - judges
• *nomon*: accusative, masculine, singular - law
• *de*: conjunction - but/and/now
• *krineis*: present active indicative, 2nd singular - judge
• *ei*: present active indicative, 2nd singular - are/exist
• *poiētēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - doer/maker
• *kritēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - judge

Word Meanings

• *katalaleite*: speak evil of/slander/criticize
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren/siblings
• *katalalōn*: speaking evil of/slandering/criticizing
• *adelphou*: brother/fellow believer
• *krinōn*: judging/criticizing/condemning
• *adelphon*: brother/fellow believer
• *katalalei*: speaks evil of/slanders/criticizes
• *nomou*: law/rule
• *krinei*: judges/criticizes/condemns
• *nomon*: law/rule
• *krineis*: judge/criticize/condemn
• *ei*: are/exist
• *poiētēs*: doer/maker/performer
• *kritēs*: judge/critic

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Ps 140:11 : 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
• Jas 5:9 : 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
• Rom 2:13 : 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
• Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Rom 7:12-13 : 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
• Rom 14:3-4 : 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
• Rom 14:10-12 : 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing 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 of God.
• 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
• Luke 6:37 : 37 {G2532} Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
• Titus 2:3 : 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
• Jas 1:22-23 : 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
• Jas 1:25 : 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.