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James 4:13-15 KJV
James · chapter 4 · verses 13–15 · King James Version
13Go 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 gain: 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.James 4:13-15 · King James Version
James 4:13-15 in context
11Speak 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.
12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13Go 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 gain:
14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Commentary
Cross references
- Proverbs 27:1
- Luke 12:17-20
- 1 Peter 1:24
- Psalms 39:5
- 1 John 2:17
- Psalms 102:3
- Job 7:6-7
- Job 14:1-2
- James 1:10
- Psalms 90:5-7
- Proverbs 19:21
- Hebrews 6:3
Key words (Strong's)
- continuepoieōto make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be…G4160 →
- Whereashostiswhoever, whatever, whoG3748 →
- morrowauriontomorrowG839 →
- vapouratmisvapourG822 →
- citypolisa city, one s native city, the city in which one lives, the heavenly Jerusalem, the abode…G4172 →
- yeareniautosa year, in a wider sense, for some fixed definite period of timeG1763 →
- sellemporeuomaito go a trading, to travel for business, to traffic, trade, of a thing, to import for…G1710 →
- gainkerdainōto gain, acquire, to get gain, metaph., of gain arising from shunning or escaping from…G2770 →
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In this part of the chapter, I. We are cautioned against the sin of evil-speaking: Speak not evil one of another, brethren, Jam 4:11. The Greek word, katalaleite, signifies speaking any thing that may hurt or injure another;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-17