James 4:16 - Revised Version 1885

¹⁶ But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But now you boast and brag, and all such boasting is evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

James 4:16 Cross References

Psalm 52:1

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the mercy of God endureth continually.

Psalm 52:7

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.

Proverbs 25:14

As clouds and wind without rain, So is he that boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.

Proverbs 27:1

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Isaiah 47:10

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 there is none else beside me.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Revelation 18:7

How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.