James 4:16 - The Message16-17 As it is, you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil. In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don’t do it, that, for you, is evil. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176916 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition16 But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible16 But now you boast and brag, and all such boasting is evil. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version16 But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked. Ver Capítulo |
Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.