15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
but bade them farewell, saying, [I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem]; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.
Many are the thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that doth stand.
Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.
For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.
And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find favour in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and shew me it, and its habitation. But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good to 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,