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The Book of James, Chapter 4, Verse 15

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For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
American Standard Version
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
New English Translation
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.
World English Bible
For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
16
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
17
Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
1
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
2
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
3
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
4
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5
Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.
6
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
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Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
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Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.