James 4:15

Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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

14and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away?

16But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.

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Cross References

Romans 1:10always in my prayers making request, that, if possible, I may at length have a prosperous journey, by the will of God to come to you.

1 Corinthians 4:19but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

Hebrews 6:3And this we will do, if God 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 →

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