The Bible › Young's Literal Translation › James 4
James 4:12
one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?
James 4:12 · Young's Literal Translation
James 4:12 in other translations
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;
12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?
13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'
14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
Read James 4 in the app The whole chapter