James 4:11

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Matt 7:1-2 : 1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 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.
  • Rom 2:13 : 13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 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."
  • Rom 7:12-13 : 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
  • Rom 14:3-4 : 3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
  • Rom 14:10-12 : 10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'" 12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 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.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 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;
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
  • Luke 6:37 : 37 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.
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
  • Jas 1:22-23 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 But he who looks into the perfect law 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.

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    12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

  • Jas 5:9
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    9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Jas 2:11-13
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    11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

    12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

    13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

  • Matt 7:1
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    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  • Rom 14:13
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    13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

  • 1 Cor 6:4-8
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    4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

    5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

    6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • Rom 14:10
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    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Rom 2:1
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    1 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.

  • 1 Cor 6:1
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    1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

  • Lev 19:15-17
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    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

    16 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

    17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • Deut 19:19
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    19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • John 7:24
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    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • Ps 15:3
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    3 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • Ps 50:20
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    20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

  • Jas 2:7-9
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    7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

    8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

    9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  • Rom 14:4
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    4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

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    12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

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    12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

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  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

    21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • Gal 5:15
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    15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

  • Luke 6:37
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    37 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.

  • 1 Pet 4:15
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    15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.

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    10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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    57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

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    10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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    1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

  • Luke 6:41
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    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.