James 4:15

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So you should say, “If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that.”

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People might make many plans, but what the Lord says is what will happen.

And that’s what we will do if God allows.

No one can say something and make it happen, unless the Lord orders it.

He left them and said, “I will come back to you again if God wants me to.” And so he sailed away from Ephesus.

I don’t want to come see you now, because I would have to leave to go to other places. I hope to stay a longer time with you, if the Lord allows it.

Then, if God wants me to, I will come to you. I will come with joy, and together you and I will have a time of rest.

But I will come to you very soon, the Lord willing. Then I will see if these proud talkers have the power to do anything more than talk.

But now you are proud and boast about yourself. All such boasting is wrong.