James 4:11-17 ▼

11 Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you, the one judging your neighbor.

13 Come now, ye who are saying, To-day or to-morrow we will go into that city, and abide there a year, and trade and accumulate:

14 whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

15 on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.

16 But you are now boasting in your arrogances: all such boasting is wicked.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.