James 4:15
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
World Messianic Bible
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 now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation;
Lamentations 3:37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
Romans 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
Hebrews 6:3This will we do, if God permits.
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 →