James 4:16
But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15Instead of your saying, If the Lord pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing.
17Therefore if a man knoweth how to act properly, and doth not, he is criminal.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
Revelation 18:7As much as she hath glorified herself, and rioted in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her: because she hath said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall 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 →