James 4:11

Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge.

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Psalm 140:11

Let not the slanderer become established in the land. May evil quickly hunt down the violent man.

James 5:9

Do not complain about each other, brothers, or you will be condemned. Look! The Judge is standing at the door!

Matthew 7:1-2

"Stop judging, so that you won't be judged,

Luke 6:37

"Stop judging, and you'll never be judged. Stop condemning, and you'll never be condemned. Forgive, and you'll be forgiven.

Romans 2:1

Therefore, you have no excuse every one of you who judges. For when you pass judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, practice the very same things.

Romans 2:13

For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified.

Romans 7:7

What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

Romans 7:12-13

So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.

Romans 14:3-4

The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.

Romans 14:10-12

Why, then, do you criticize your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For all of us will stand before the judgment seat of God.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.

2 Corinthians 12:20

I am afraid that I may come and somehow find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

1 Timothy 3:11

Their wives must also be serious. They must not be gossips, but instead be stable and trustworthy in everything.

2 Timothy 3:3

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

Titus 2:3

Likewise, older women are to show their reverence for God by their behavior. They are not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of goodness.

James 1:22-23

Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.

James 1:25

But the one who looks at the perfect law of freedom and remains committed to it thereby demonstrating that he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of what that law requires will be blessed in what he does.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Speaketh evil of the law

General references

Bible References

And judgeth

Matthew 7:1
"Stop judging, so that you won't be judged,
Luke 6:37
"Stop judging, and you'll never be judged. Stop condemning, and you'll never be condemned. Forgive, and you'll be forgiven.
Romans 2:1
Therefore, you have no excuse every one of you who judges. For when you pass judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Romans 14:3
The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.

Speaketh evil of the law

Romans 7:7
What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

A doer

James 1:22
Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.
Romans 2:13
For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified.

General references

Exodus 20:16
"You are not to give false testimony against your neighbor.
Matthew 7:1
"Stop judging, so that you won't be judged,

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