James 4:15

World English Bible (2000)

For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 18:21 : 21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.
  • Heb 6:3 : 3 This will we do, if God permits.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
  • Rom 1:10 : 10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
  • Rom 15:32 : 32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
  • 1 Cor 4:19 : 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
  • 1 Cor 16:7 : 7 For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
  • 2 Sam 15:25-26 : 25 The king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation; 26 but if he say 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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