James 4:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Instead you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.

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  • Acts 18:21 : 21 but bade them farewell, saying, 'I must by all means keep this feast that is coming in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you if God wills.' And he sailed from Ephesus.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
  • Heb 6:3 : 3 And this we will do, if God permits.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not commanded it?
  • Rom 1:10 : 10 Making request, if by any means now at last I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.
  • Rom 15:32 : 32 That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.
  • 1 Cor 4:19 : 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the power.
  • 1 Cor 16:7 : 7 For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to stay with you a while, if the Lord permits.
  • 2 Sam 15:25-26 : 25 And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: 26 But if he says thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seems good to him.

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    13Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit;

    14Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

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    3And this we will do, if God permits.

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

    8For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • Prov 27:1
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    1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

  • 2 Thess 3:4
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    4And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command you.

  • 1 Thess 3:8
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    8For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 4:11-12
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    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

    12So then, death works in us, but life in you.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • 1 Cor 16:7
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    7For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to stay with you a while, if the Lord permits.

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    14And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

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    7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you.

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    12That you may walk honestly toward those who are outside, and that you may have lack of nothing.

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    12So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.

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    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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    36For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

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    14And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

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    19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the power.