Parallel Verses
King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
New American Standard Bible
But as it is, you boast in your
Holman Bible
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
International Standard Version
But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
A Conservative Version
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
American Standard Version
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
Amplified
But as it is, you boast [vainly] in your pretension and arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
An Understandable Version
But, as it is, you people are boasting in your arrogance [and] all such boasting is evil.
Anderson New Testament
But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.
Bible in Basic English
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
Common New Testament
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Daniel Mace New Testament
you triumph in your vain projects, but your presumption is vicious.
Darby Translation
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
Godbey New Testament
But you are now boasting in your arrogances: all such boasting is wicked.
Goodspeed New Testament
But, as it is, you pride yourselves on your pretensions. All such pride is wrong.
John Wesley New Testament
But now ye glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.
Julia Smith Translation
And now ye boast in your arrogance: all such boasting is evil.
King James 2000
But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Modern King James verseion
But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.
Moffatt New Testament
But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.
Montgomery New Testament
But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.
NET Bible
But 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.
Noyes New Testament
but now ye glory in your boastings. All such glorying is evil.
Sawyer New Testament
But now you glory in your boasting; all such glorying is evil.
The Emphasized Bible
Whereas, now, are ye boasting in your pretensions: - All boasting like this, is, wicked,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
Webster
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.
Williams New Testament
But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked.
World English Bible
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Worrell New Testament
But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.
Worsley New Testament
but ye glory in your presumption: all such glorying is wicked.
Youngs Literal Translation
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Arrogant Boasting About The Future
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Psalm 52:1
{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.
Psalm 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.
Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Isaiah 47:7-8
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
Isaiah 47:10
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
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?
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Revelation 18:7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.