James 4:15
Instead of what you are saying, you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25Then the king said to Zadok, “You and Abiathar take the sacred chest back into the city. If Yahweh is pleased with me, he will some day allow me to return to see it and the place where it is kept.
Lamentations 3:37No one can [RHQ] command something to happen and then cause it to happen if Yahweh has not already decided that it should happen.
Romans 1:10I especially ask God that if he desires me to visit you, somehow at last I shall be able to do so.
1 Corinthians 4:19But if the Lord wants me to come, I will come to you soon. Then I will not pay any attention to what those proud people say. Instead, I will find out whether they have God’s power.
Hebrews 6:3Instead of continuing to discuss these elementary truths, we (inc) (OR, I) will go on to give people mature teaching, if God allows 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 →