James 4:16
But you are now boasting in your arrogances: all such boasting is wicked.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.
17Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to 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 to so many things as she has glorified herself, and lived wantonly, give unto her so much torment and sorrow. Because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow; and I see no sorrow;
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 →