James 4:16
But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that."
17So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?
Revelation 18:7By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, ‘I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see 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 →