James 4:15
For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
16But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me again, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.
Lamentations 3:37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Romans 1:10Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them 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 →