James 4:16
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
17He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.
Isaiah 47:10For thou have trusted in thy wickedness. Thou have said, None sees me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee. And thou have said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Revelation 18:7In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.
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 →