James 4:16
But now you boast in your arrogant pretensions. All such boasting is malignant.
Family 35 New Testament
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 will live and do this or that.”
17Therefore, to the one knowing to do good and not doing it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
Revelation 18:7To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, by so much give her torment; because in her heart she says, ‘I sit a queen, and am not a widow; and I will certainly not 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 →