15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.
There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.
For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: but if he say thus, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
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Commentary on James 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter we are directed to consider,
Jam 4:1-10
The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height.
Jam 4:11-17
In this part of the chapter,