James 4:15

instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

Young's Literal Translation

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

14who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

16and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:25And the king saith to Zadok, 'Take back the ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He hath brought me back, and shewn me it and His habitation;

Lamentations 3:37Who [is] this — he hath said, and it is, [And] the Lord hath not commanded [it]?

Romans 1:10always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,

1 Corinthians 4:19but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

Hebrews 6:3and this we will do, if God may 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 →

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