Bible verse
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
James 4:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from James 4.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
14 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 the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
KJV
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
ASV
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
ERV
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
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