James 4:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
  • Ps 52:7 : 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
  • Isa 47:7-8 : 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
  • 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

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