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


In Context

12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who are you to judge your neighbor?

13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."

14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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

16 As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.

17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also 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;'