James 4:15
instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
Darby Translation
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
16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find favour in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and shew me it, and its habitation.
Lamentations 3:37Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
Romans 1:10always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.
Hebrews 6:3and this will we 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 →