James 4:11 f. A return to the topic of James 1:26; James 2:12; James 3:1-12. Backbiting was a conspicuous habit among these Jews, who applied to one another some of the censoriousness they freely dealt out to the Gentiles. Judge, here as elsewhere, means condemn there is no opening for a judge's impartiality. James tells them that such conduct abrogates the royal law of James 2:8, and makes them usurp the function of the One Lawgiver. The thought, of course, was suggested to him by Matthew 7:1 f.
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James 4:11
11 Speak 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.