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James 4:16

But you people are proud and you talk a lot. But that's not good, because you don't know about tomorrow.

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In The King James Version

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

In Context

15You know nothing about tomorrow. So you should say, “If God wants me to stay here and keep busy, then I will stay and do that.”

17If any of you know about doing good but you don't do it, you are very bad.

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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 →

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