James 4:16
But as it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes; all such boasting is evil.
Text-Critical English NT
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, let us live and do this or that.”
17So whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Revelation 18:7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same amount of torment and mourning, for in her heart she says, ‘I sit enthroned as a queen; I am not a widow and will never see mourning.’
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 →