James 4:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 18:21 : 21 but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus,
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 Many `are' the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.
  • Heb 6:3 : 3 and this we will do, if God may permit,
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'?
  • Rom 1:10 : 10 always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,
  • Rom 15:32 : 32 that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,
  • 1 Cor 4:19 : 19 but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;
  • 1 Cor 16:7 : 7 for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;
  • 2 Sam 15:25-26 : 25 And the king saith to Zadok, `Take back the ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He hath brought me back, and shewn me it and His habitation; 26 and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here `am' I, He doth to me as `is' good in His eyes.'

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    13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

    14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

  • Heb 6:3
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    3 and this we will do, if God may permit,

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7 For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;

    8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

  • Prov 27:1
    71%

    1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15 for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

  • 2 Thess 3:4
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    4 and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

  • 1 Thess 3:8
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    8 because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

  • 2 Cor 4:11-12
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    11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

    12 so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

  • 1 Cor 16:7
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    7 for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;

  • Jas 1:4-5
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    4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

    5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

  • Acts 21:14
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    14 and he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, `The will of the Lord be done.'

  • John 15:7
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    7 if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • Rom 14:12
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    12 so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

  • Rom 8:13
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    13 for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4 lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

  • Heb 10:36
    68%

    36 for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

  • 1 John 5:14-15
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    14 And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

    15 and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

  • Jas 1:12
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    12 Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

  • 1 Thess 4:3
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    3 for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

  • Ps 90:12
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    12 To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

  • 1 John 2:17
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    17 and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

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    5 let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord `is' near;

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    31 therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

  • 2 Cor 5:8-9
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    8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

  • Jas 1:7
    67%

    7 for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --

  • Ps 144:4
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    4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

  • 2 Cor 5:3
    67%

    3 if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

  • 1 Pet 2:15
    67%

    15 because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

  • Gal 5:25
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    25 if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

  • Phil 3:15
    67%

    15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

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    67%

    22 And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

  • Jas 5:12
    67%

    12 And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

  • Isa 38:16
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    16 Lord, by these do `men' live, And by all in them `is' the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

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    6 so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15 for the all things `are' because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37 and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

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    17 for `it is' better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

  • 1 Cor 4:19
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    19 but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;