Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
James 4:15
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
- KJV
- For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
- WEB
- For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
- ASV
- For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
- LSV
- instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;
- YLT
- instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
- DBY
- instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
- DRC
- For 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.
- GNV
- For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read θελήσῃ (“shall wish”); Westcott–Hort read θέλῃ (“wishes”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ζήσομεν (“we will live”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ζήσωμεν (“we may live”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ποιήσομεν (“we will do”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ποιήσωμεν (“let us make”).
SBLGNT apparatus (3)
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- SBLGNT: θελήσῃ. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read θελήσῃ; Westcott and Hort (1881) read θέλῃ.
- SBLGNT: ζήσομεν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ζήσομεν; Robinson–Pierpont read ζήσωμεν.
- SBLGNT: ποιήσομεν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ποιήσομεν; Robinson–Pierpont read ποιήσωμεν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἀντὶ τοῦ λέγειν ὑμᾶς· Ἐὰν ὁ κύριος θελήσῃ, καὶ ζήσομεν καὶ ποιήσομεν τοῦτο ἢ ἐκεῖνο.
- RP2018
- Ἀντὶ τοῦ λέγειν ὑμᾶς, Ἐὰν ὁ κύριος θελήσῃ, καὶ ζήσωμεν, καὶ ποιήσωμεν τοῦτο ἢ ἐκεῖνο.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἀντὶ τοῦ λέγειν ὑμᾶς, Ἐὰν ὁ Κύριος θελήσῃ, καὶ ζήσωμεν, καὶ ποιήσομεν τοῦτο ἢ ἐκεῖνο.ζήσωμεν ¦ ζήσομεν SCRποιήσομεν ¦ ποιήσωμεν ST
- SCR1894
- αντι του λεγειν υμας εαν ο κυριος θεληση και ζησομεν και ποιησομεν τουτο η εκεινο
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
- Hebrews 6:3And this we will do, if God permits.
- Lamentations 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
- Acts 18:21But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.
- Romans 1:10in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.
- 1 Corinthians 16:7For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
- Romans 15:32so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.
- 2 Samuel 15:25–26Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again. But if He should say, ‘I do not…
- 1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.
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