James 4:16
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
17The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7\52:5\But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
Proverbs 27:1Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Isaiah 47:10For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
1 Corinthians 5:6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
Revelation 18:7As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see 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 →