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


In Context

12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?

13 Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

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

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

17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

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 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.|