James 4:15

Instead of your saying, If the Lord pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

14though ye know nothing of what shall be to-morrow. For what is your life? It is but a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and then vanishes away.

16But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.

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Cross References

Romans 1:10always in my prayers entreating that haply now at last I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come to you.

1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come shortly unto you, if the Lord please, and will know, not the prating of them that are puffed up, but the power.

Hebrews 6:3And so we will do, if God permit.

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 →

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