Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
New American Standard Bible
But as it is, you boast in your
King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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.
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;
Interlinear
De
Pas
Toioutos
References
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Arrogant Boasting About The Future
15 in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that. 16 But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Psalm 52:1
Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.
Psalm 52:7
Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Proverbs 25:14
Clouds and wind without rain, [is] he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.
Isaiah 47:7-8
And thou said, I shall be mistress forever, so that thou did not lay these things to thy heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.
Isaiah 47:10
For thou have trusted in thy wickedness. Thou have said, None sees me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee. And thou have said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
Revelation 18:7
In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.