James 4:16
New International Version
As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

New Living Translation
Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.

English Standard Version
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Berean Standard Bible
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

Berean Literal Bible
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

King James Bible
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

New King James Version
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

New American Standard Bible
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

NASB 1995
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

NASB 1977
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

Legacy Standard Bible
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Amplified Bible
But as it is, you boast [vainly] in your pretension and arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Christian Standard Bible
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

American Standard Version
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They boast in their pride. All such boasting is evil.

Contemporary English Version
Yet you are stupid enough to brag, and it is wrong to be so proud.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

English Revised Version
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
However, you brag because you're arrogant. All such bragging is evil.

Good News Translation
But now you are proud, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong.

International Standard Version
But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

Literal Standard Version
but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

Majority Standard Bible
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

New American Bible
But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

NET Bible
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

New Revised Standard Version
As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

New Heart English Bible
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Webster's Bible Translation
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Weymouth New Testament
But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.

World English Bible
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Young's Literal Translation
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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Context
Do Not Boast of Tomorrow
15Instead, 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. 17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not from the Father but from the world.


Treasury of Scripture

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

James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Psalm 52:1,7
To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually…

Proverbs 25:14
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

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James 4
1. We are to strive against covetousness;
4. intemperance;
5. pride;
11. detraction and rash judgment of others;
13. and not to be boastful of our future plans.














(16) But now . . . .--How different is the case with you, cries St. James; you actually glory and delight in your own self-confidence and presumption, and every such rejoicing is evil. The word for "boastings" is the same as that translated "the pride of life" in 1John 2:16--i.e., its braggart boastfulness, not the innocent gladness of living. It is the trust of the "ungodly" (Psalm 10:6, "There shall no harm happen unto me"), and the mistaken confidence of even such godly men as Job (Job 29:18, "shall die in my nest"), before the Almighty instructs them by trouble, and loss, and pain.

Verse 16. - But now. As is actually the case, "ye glory in your vauntings." ἈλαζονείΑ: only here and in 1 John 2:16; in the LXX., in 2 Macc. 9:8 and Wisd. 5:8. It is a favorite word with St. Clement of Rome. On its meaning and distinction from ὑπερηφανία and other kindred words, see Trench on ' Synonyms,' p. 95; and cf. Westcott on the 'Epistles of St. John,' p. 64. The vice of the ἀλάζων "centers in self and is consummated in his absolute self-exaltation, while the ὑπερήφανος shows his character by his overweening treatment of others. The ἀλάζων sins most against truth; the ὑπερήφανος sins most against love." This extract will serve to show the fitness of ἀλαζονεία rather than ὑπερηφανία in the passage before us. The verse should be rendered, as in R.V., "But now ye glory (καυχᾶσθε) in your vauntings: all such glorying (καύχησις) is evil." Καύχησις is the act, not the matter (καύχημα), of glorying.

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Greek
As it is,
νῦν (nyn)
Adverb
Strong's 3568: A primary particle of present time; 'now'; also as noun or adjective present or immediate.

you boast
καυχᾶσθε (kauchasthe)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2744: To boast; I glory (exult) proudly. From some base akin to that of aucheo and euchomai; to vaunt.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

proud intentions.
ἀλαζονείαις (alazoneiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 212: From alazon; braggadocio, i.e. self-confidence.

All
πᾶσα (pasa)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

such
τοιαύτη (toiautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5108: (including the other inflections); from toi and houtos; truly this, i.e. Of this sort (to denote character or individuality).

boasting
καύχησις (kauchēsis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2746: The act of boasting, glorying, exultation. From kauchaomai; boasting, in a good or a bad sense.

is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

evil.
πονηρά (ponēra)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4190: Evil, bad, wicked, malicious, slothful.


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