James 4:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

but on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

asking that by God’s will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.

And we will do this, if God permits.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.