11/24/20 THE ONE ANOTHER’S IN THE NT #36 — James 4:11 (CSB) DON’T CRITICIZE ONE ANOTHER, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

“Criticize” can also be translated as “speak evil, speak against or slander.” James 4:1-12 focuses on how believers should and should not treat each other. The MacArthur Study Bible comments “James does not forbid confronting those in sin, which is elsewhere commanded in Scripture… Rather, he condemns careless, derogatory, critical, slanderous accusations against others.” We must remember that we do not judge God’s law; God’s law judges US!