James 4:15
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Family 35 New Testament
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 arrogant pretensions. All such boasting is malignant.
Cross References
Romans 1:10begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.
Hebrews 6:3We will do this, that is, if indeed God should permit it.
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 →