James 4:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills it,[a] we shall live to do this or that.” 16 But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 (A)So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.[b]
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- 4:15 If the Lord wills it: often in piety referred to as the “conditio Jacobaea,” the condition James says we should employ to qualify all our plans.
- 4:17 It is a sin: those who live arrogantly, forgetting the contingency of life and our dependence on God (Jas 4:13–16), are guilty of sin.
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