James 4:11-17 ▼

11 Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But 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 to judge your neighbor?

13 Come now, you who say, “ Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

14 You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring — what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

15 Instead, you should say, “ If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

17 So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.