King James Version
James 4:16 in the King James Version says “But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.” — study this verse from James chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.”
James 4:16 · KJV
Whereas 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. It: or, For it is
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live , and do this, or that.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“now”
G3568"now" (as adverb of date, a transition or emphasis); also as noun or adjective present or immediate
“rejoicing”
G2746boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense
“evil”
G4190hurtful, i.e., evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from g2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from g455
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