James 4:15
Instead you should say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’
Open English Bible (US)
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 as it is, you are boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
Cross References
Romans 1:10asking that, if he be willing, I may some day at last find the way open to visit you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I will find out, not what words these people use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;
Hebrews 6:3Yes and, with God’s help, we will.
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 →