James 4:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:4 : 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.
  • Isa 33:22 : 22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • 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 9:20 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
  • Rom 14:13 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
  • 1 Sam 25:10 : 10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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  • Jas 4:11
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    11Don'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.

  • Rom 14:4
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    4Who 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.

  • Jas 2:9-13
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    74%

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

    10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

    11For 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.

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

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

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    73%

    1Therefore 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.

    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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

  • Luke 12:57-58
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    72%

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

    58For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

  • Jas 4:13
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    13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

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

  • 2 Chr 19:6
    71%

    6and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • 1 Cor 6:4-7
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    4If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

    5I 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?

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

    7Therefore 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?

  • Acts 7:27
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    27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    70%

    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

    4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 6:1
    70%

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

  • Jas 2:4
    70%

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

  • 1 Cor 5:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

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

    13But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

  • Luke 12:14
    69%

    14But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

  • Jas 5:9
    69%

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

  • Isa 33:22
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    22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Ps 75:7
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    7But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

  • John 7:24
    68%

    24Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • Rom 2:27
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    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Rom 14:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

    13Therefore 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.

  • Rom 14:10
    68%

    10But 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.

  • Lev 19:15
    68%

    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.

  • Deut 25:1
    67%

    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Job 14:3
    67%

    3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 40:8
    67%

    8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • Deut 1:17
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    17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

  • Job 34:17
    67%

    17Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

  • Jas 3:1
    67%

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

  • Job 36:17
    67%

    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Prov 17:15
    67%

    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Matt 12:37
    67%

    37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

  • Jas 5:6
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    6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • 1 Cor 11:31
    66%

    31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

  • John 7:51
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    51"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

  • Eccl 8:4
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    4for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"