James 4:15

WEB

¹⁵For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

KJV

¹⁵For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

BSB

¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

FBV

¹⁵What you should say is, “If it's the Lord's will, we'll live like this and plan to do that.”

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Extra References

Proverbs 19:21

²¹There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.

Lamentations 3:37

³⁷Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Acts 18:21

²¹but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Romans 1:10

¹⁰requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

1 Corinthians 16:7

⁷For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Romans 15:32

³²that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

²⁵The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation; ²⁶but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

1 Corinthians 4:19

¹⁹But 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.