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


In Context

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 4:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:16But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;