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


In Context

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 4:16 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:16As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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