James 4:16
But now you boast in your presumption: all such boasting is evil.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15Instead you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.
17Therefore, for him who knows the good he ought to do, and does not do it, for him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Revelation 18:7As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her that measure of torment and grief: for she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and shall never see 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 →