James 4:15
in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
In Context
16But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find favor in the eyes of LORD he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation.
Lamentations 3:37Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when LORD does not command it?
Romans 1:10pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
Hebrews 6:3And this we will do, if of course God will permit.
Matthew Henry on James 4:12-17
Caution against Slander; Caution against Presumption. ( a. d. 61.) 11 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. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get… Read the whole commentary →