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


In Context

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

13 Come now, you who say, |Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.|

14 Whereas 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.

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

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

17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, 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 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 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;'