James 4:16
They glory in their vaunting. All such glorying is evil.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15Whereas they should say: If the Lord please, and we live, we will do this or that.
17He that knoweth the good, and doeth it not, to him is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not praiseworthy. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
Revelation 18:7As much as she pleased herself with lasciviousness, so much of anguish and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I 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 →