James 4:16
But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
17Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?
Revelation 18:7As much glory and voluptuousness as she has given to herself, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
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 →