15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, 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 might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust 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 the LORD, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: But if he thus say, 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,