James 4:16
But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15You ought, rather, to say ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’
17He, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it — that is sin in him.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?
Revelation 18:7for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says ‘I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I shall never know misery.’
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 →