James 4:11-17

21st Century King James Version

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.

¹² There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Who art thou that judgest another?

¹³ Come now, ye that say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain”;

¹⁴ whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

¹⁵ Instead ye ought to say, “If the Lord will, we shall live and do this or that.”

¹⁶ But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin.