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Bible in Basic English
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying 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.
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.
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 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that. 16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil. 17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6
This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
Psalm 52:1
Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Psalm 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself
Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.
Proverbs 27:1
Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Isaiah 47:7-8
And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.
Isaiah 47:10
For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
Revelation 18:7
As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.