15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
And this will we do, if God permit.
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)In this part of the chapter, I. We are cautioned against the sin of evil-speaking: Speak not evil one of another, brethren , Jas. 4:11. The Greek word, katalaleite , signifies speaking any thing that may hurt or injure another; we must not speak evil things of others, though they be true, unless we be called to it, and there be some necessary occasion for the; much less must we report evil things…
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