James 4:15
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
Revised Version 1895
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
16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
Lamentations 3:37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Romans 1:10making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them which are puffed up, but the power.
Hebrews 6:3And this will we 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 →