James 4:16
But now ye glory in your boastings. All such glorying is evil.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15instead of saying: If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
17Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Revelation 18:7By as much as she glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, so much torment and mourning give her; because in her heart she says: I sit a queen, and not a widow, and shall not see mourning.
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 →