James 4:15

instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;

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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

14who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;

16but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:25And the king says to Zadok, “Take back the Ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of YHWH, then He has brought me back, and shown me it and His habitation;

Lamentations 3:37Who [is] this—he has spoken, and it is, || [And] the Lord has not commanded [it]?

Romans 1:10always in my prayers imploring, if by any means now at length I will have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come to you,

1 Corinthians 4:19but I will come quickly to you, if the LORD may will, and I will not know the word of those puffed up, but the power;

Hebrews 6:3and this we will do, if God may permit,

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 →

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