James 4:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

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  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me.'
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 Why do you boast in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.
  • Ps 52:7 : 7 Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 Whoever boasts of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
  • Isa 47:7-8 : 7 And you said, 'I shall be a lady forever,' so that you did not lay these things to heart, nor remember their end. 8 Therefore hear this now, you that are given to pleasures, that dwell carelessly, that say in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.'
  • 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who makes you different from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? 8 Now you are full, now you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed, I wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 As much as she has glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and sorrow: for she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

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