“for that you should say, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we will do this or that. But now you glory in your arrogance. All such rejoicing is wicked. Furthermore, having intercepted such speech by this example, it again returns from the perspective to what was following. For the whole particle is to be ordered in th…”
Oecumenius, 6th c. — Commentary on James
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16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
— James 4:16 —
17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.