James 4:16
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Isaiah 47:10You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Revelation 18:7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
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 →