James 4:16
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
English Majority Text (NT)
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 wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Revelation 18:7In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.’
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 →