James 4:11

WEB

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.

KJV

¹¹Speak 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.

BSB

¹¹Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

FBV

¹¹Friends, don't speak badly of one another. Anyone who criticizes a fellow-believer and condemns^[+] them, criticizes and condemns the law. If you condemn the law you're not someone who keeps the law, because you're sitting in judgment of it.

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Extra References

1 Peter 2:1

¹Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Romans 2:1

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.

James 5:9

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

Luke 6:37

³⁷Don’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.

Matthew 7:1-2

¹“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. ²For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Psalms 140:11

¹¹An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

1 Corinthians 4:5

⁵Therefore 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.

Ephesians 4:31

³¹Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Romans 14:10-12

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. ¹¹For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

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

2 Corinthians 12:20

²⁰For I am afraid that perhaps 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 perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,