James 4:16
They glory in their pride. All glorying such as this is from the Evil.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15For instead they should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will do this or that.
17And he who knoweth the good and doeth it not, sin is to him.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth?
Revelation 18:7How much she hath pleased herself to be wanton, all this give her suffering and sorrow. For she said in her heart, I sit the queen, and am not a widow, and sorrow I see not.
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 →