James 4:16
But as it is, you are boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15Instead you should say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’
17The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it – that is sin in them.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7“Look” (they will say) “at the hero who did not make God his stronghold, but trusted in his great wealth and in the strength of his riches.”
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is unseemly. Don’t you know that even a little yeast leavens all the dough?
Revelation 18:7for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says ‘I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I will never know misery.’
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 →