James 4:16
But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
17To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.
Isaiah 47:10And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou best said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ?
Revelation 18:7As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her; because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen, and am no widow; and sorrow I shall not see.
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 →