15instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.


In Context

12 One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?

13 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

14 ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

17 To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:15For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:15Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:15For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:15For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15Instead of that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15For you ought to say, |If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'