James 4:15
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
English Majority Text (NT)
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
16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Cross References
Romans 1:10requesting if somehow now at sometime I shall succeed in the will of God to come to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you quickly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are arrogant, but the power.
Hebrews 6:3And let us do this if indeed God permits.
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 →