James 4:16
But now all of you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
15For that all of you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
17Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
Isaiah 47:10For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in yours heart, I am, and none else beside me.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know all of you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Revelation 18:7How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and 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 →