James 4:15

Whereas they should say: If the Lord please, and we live, we will do this or that.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

14And they know not what will be to-morrow: for what is our life, but an exhalation that is seen a little while, and then vanisheth and is gone?

16They glory in their vaunting. All such glorying is evil.

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Cross References

Romans 1:10And I likewise supplicate, that hereafter a door may be opened to me, by the good pleasure of God, to come unto you.

1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you speedily, if God be willing: and I will know, not the speech of them who exalt themselves, but their power:

Hebrews 6:3We will do this, if the Lord 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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