James 4:15
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
In context
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.
James 4:15 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
- KJV King James Version
- For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
- WEB World English Bible
- For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
- DBY Darby Translation
- instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Instead of that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.