James 4:16
But now ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.
17Therefore, to him that knoweth how to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Isaiah 47:10For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse: thou hast sayd, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, they haue caused thee to rebel, and thou hast saide in thine heart, I am, and none els.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?
Revelation 18:7In as much as she glorified her selfe, and liued in pleasure, so much giue ye to her torment and sorow: for she saith in her heart, I sit being a queene, and am no widowe, and shall see no 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 →