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James 4:11
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9 aLament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.  
10 aHumble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.  

Do Not Judge a Brother

11 aDo not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother band judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.  
12 There is one1 Lawgiver, awho is able to save and to destroy. bWho are you to judge another?  

Do Not Boast About Tomorrow

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow1 we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;  
14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? aIt is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.  
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James 4:11

Speak not one against another (mh katalaleite allhlwn). Prohibition against such a habit or a command to quit doing it, with mh and the present imperative of katalalew, old compound usually with the accusative in ancient Greek, in N.T. only with the genitive (here, I Peter 2:12; I Peter 3:16). Often harsh words about the absent. James returns to the subject of the tongue as he does again in James 5:12 (twice before, James 1:26; James 3:1-12).

Judgeth (krinwn). In the sense of harsh judgment as in Matthew 7:1; Luke 6:37 (explained by katadikazw).

Not a doer of the law, but a judge (ouk poihthv nomou, alla krithv). This tone of superiority to law is here sharply condemned. James has in mind God's law, of course, but the point is the same for all laws under which we live. We cannot select the laws which we will obey unless some contravene God's law, and so our own conscience (Acts 4:20). Then we are willing to give our lives for our rebellion if need be.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 4:11:

Romans 1:30
James 1:22
James 2:8

 

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