James 4:15
For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that.
Catholic Public Domain 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
14consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
16But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25And the king said to Zadok: “Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will lead me back. And he will show it to me in his tabernacle.
Lamentations 3:37MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
Romans 1:10always in my prayers, pleading that in some way, at some time, I may have a prosperous journey, within the will of God, to come to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will return to you soon, if the Lord is willing. And I will consider, not the words of those who are inflated, but the virtue.
Hebrews 6:3And we shall do this, if indeed God permits it.
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 →