James 4:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

James 4:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Psalms 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Proverbs 25:14
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? …

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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 wh…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. now--as it is. rejoice in ... boastings--“ye boast in arrogant presumptions,” namely, vain confident fancies that the future is certain to you (Jas 4:13). rejoicing--boasting [Bengel].