James 4:16

James 4:16

14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? ^aIt is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

15 Instead you ought to say, ^a“If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

16 But now you boast in your arrogance. ^aAll such boasting is evil.

17 Therefore, ^ato him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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In your vauntings (en taiv alazoniaiv umwn). Old word for braggart talk (from alazoneuomai, to act the alazwn empty boaster Romans 1:30), common in Aristophanes, in N.T. only here and I John 2:16.

Glorying (kauxhsiv). Act of glorying, late word from kauxaomai, good if for Christ (I Thessalonians 2:19), bad if for self as here.

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