James 4:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? ”

James 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is one lawgiver - There is but one who has a right to give law. The reference here is undoubtedly to the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Legislator of the church. This, too, is a most importan...
James 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lawgiver . Greek. nomothetes. Only here. Compare Romans 9:4 . Hebrews 7:11 . destroy . Compare James 1:11 (perish). another . the other. App-124. The texts read "neighbour", as in James 2:...
James 4:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12 There is one lawgiver (134) Now he connects the power of saying and destroying with the office of a lawgiver, he intimates that the whole majesty of God is forcibly assumed by those who...
James 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? There is one lawgiver - Και κριτης, And judge, is added here by AB, about thirty others, with both the Sy...
James 4:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There is one Lawgiver,— Dr. Bentley would close the last verse with the words, Thou art not a doer of the law, and begin the present, But there is one Judge—the Lawgiver. Christ is here called...
James 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? There is one lawgiver. 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, 'and judge' х ho ( G3588 ) nomothetees (...
James 4:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Denunciation of Greed and Love of Pleasure 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'
James 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There is one lawgiver.... — Better thus: One is the Law-giver and Judge, Who is able to save and to destroy: but thou — who art thou that judgest a neighbour ? As a king is the fountain of honou...
James 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1-13 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling...
James 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“If the Lord Will” James 4:11-17 When we speak evil of another, we usurp the functions of the only lawgiver and judge. If that other is endeavoring to model his life by the law, to speak evil o...
James 4:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict an...
James 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye dou...
James 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

There is one lawgiver ,.... The Alexandrian copy, and others, and the Syriac, Ethiopic, and Vulgate Latin versions, add, "and judge". Who is the one only Lord God, Isaiah 33:22 . This is a characte...
James 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? Ver. 12. There is one lawgiver ] What dost thou then do perking into his place, by censuring and defa...
James 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Speak not evil one of another See on Titus 3:2 . Evil- speaking is a grand hinderance of peace and comfort; yea, and of holiness. O who is sufficiently aware of the evil of that sin? He that spea...
James 4:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within t...
James 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Caution against Slander; Caution against Presumption. A. D. 61. 11 Speak not evil one of ano...
James 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There is one lawgiver; one absolute, supreme, universal and spiritual Lawgiver, and who can simply and directly bind men's consciences, and make laws for their souls, Proverbs 8:15,16 Isa 33:22...
James 4:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Warning Against Being Judges Of Others And Thus Pre-empting God ( James 4:11-12 a). The passage commences with a warning. Aware that his strong words and his appeal to repentance could now resu...
James 4:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 4:11 . Speak not evil. —Backbite ( Romans 1:30 ; 2 Corinthians 12:20 ). Omit “and” before “judgeth.” James 4:12 .—Read, “There is one lawgiver and judge.”...
James 4:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

save ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 1:16 ).
James 4:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

James 4:11-12 Evil-speaking. Part of the Christian life has to do with the tongue, and looking at it in its social aspect, the greatest part. The ways in which the sin forbidden in the text may b...
James 4:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

James 4:1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1 . Come they not h...
James 4:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had...
James 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION James 4:1-59 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED . A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1-59 . closed. James 4:1...
James 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Against uncharitable judging:
James 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 25:10 ; Hebrews 7:25 ; Isaiah 33:22 ; Job 38:2 ; Luke 12:5 ; Matthew 10:28 ; Romans 14:13 ; Romans 14:4 ; Romans 2:1 ; Romans 9:20
James 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

There is one lawgiver that is able — To execute the sentence he denounces. But who art thou — A poor, weak, dying worm.

James 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

James 4:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 4:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 4:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 4:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 4:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 4:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

James 4:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

James 4:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

James 4:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes