⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s servant?^(A) To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

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)

⁴ My conscience^(A) is clear, but that does not make me innocent.^(B) It is the Lord who judges me.^{(C) 5} Therefore judge nothing^(D) before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes.^(E) He will bring to light^(F) what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.^(G)

³ The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt^(A) the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge^(B) the one who does, for God has accepted them.

²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?^(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,^(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^[a](C)