12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?


In Context

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

13 Come now, you who say, |Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.|

14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

James 4:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who are you to judge your neighbor?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:12There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:12One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:12One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?