15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
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.
There are many plans in a man's heart, But Yahweh's counsel will prevail.
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
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.
For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: 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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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,