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James 4:15
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
James 4:15 · World English Bible
James 4:15 in other translations
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
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In context
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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 Yet 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.
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