New Testament · SCRIPTURE
James 4:12
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
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Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
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One is the Lawgiver and Judge, the [One] being able to save and to destroy. But who are you, the [one] judging the neighbor?
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
James 4
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 Brothers, 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.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
14 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.
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