James 4:11–17 · BSB
4:11
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.
4:12
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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4:13
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.”
4:14
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.
4:15
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
4:16
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
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