But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
James 4:16 in context
James 4:13–17
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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
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Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
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But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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