James 4:15
You ought, rather, to say ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’
Twentieth Century New Testament
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, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
Cross References
Romans 1:10asking that, if he be willing, I may some day at last find the way open to visit you.
1 Corinthians 4:19But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I shall find out, not what words these men use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;
Hebrews 6:3Yes and, with God’s help, we will.
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 →