James 4:15

You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that."

Montgomery 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

14when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

16But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

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Cross References

Romans 1:10always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

1 Corinthians 4:19But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.

Hebrews 6:3And this 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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