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Key verse: 15
NIV
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.(A) Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[a] or judges them(B) speaks against the law(C) and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,(D) but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge,(E) the one who is able to save and destroy.(F) But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?(G)
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Now listen,(H) you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”(I) 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(J) 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,(K) we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.(L) 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.(M)
Footnotes
- James 4:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.
Cross references
- James 4:11 : Ro 1:30; 2Co 12:20; 1Pe 2:1
- James 4:11 : S Mt 7:1
- James 4:11 : Jas 2:8
- James 4:11 : Jas 1:22
- James 4:12 : Isa 33:22; S Jas 5:9
- James 4:12 : Mt 10:28
- James 4:12 : S Mt 7:1
- James 4:13 : Jas 5:1
- James 4:13 : Pr 27:1; Lk 12:18-20
- James 4:14 : Job 7:7; Ps 39:5; 102:3; 144:4; Isa 2:22
- James 4:15 : S Ac 18:21
- James 4:16 : 1Co 5:6
- James 4:17 : Lk 12:47; Jn 9:41
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ESV
11 (A)Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[a] The one who speaks against a brother or (B)judges his brother, speaks evil against 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 only (C)one lawgiver and (D)judge, he who is able to save and (E)to destroy. But (F)who are you to judge your neighbor?
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, (G)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (H)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, (I)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. (J)All such boasting is evil. 17 (K)So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- James 4:11 Or brothers and sisters
Cross references
- James 4:11 : 2 Cor. 12:20; 1 Pet. 2:1; [ch. 5:9]
- James 4:11 : See Matt. 7:1
- James 4:12 : Isa. 33:22
- James 4:12 : ch. 5:9
- James 4:12 : Matt. 10:28
- James 4:12 : Rom. 14:4
- James 4:13 : Prov. 27:1; Luke 12:18-20
- James 4:14 : Ps. 102:3; [Job 7:7]
- James 4:15 : See Acts 18:21
- James 4:16 : [1 Cor. 5:6]
- James 4:17 : [Luke 12:47, 48; 2 Pet. 2:21]; See John 9:41
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Prayer: Lord, my life belongs to you. Let your will be done in and through me.
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