Parallel Verses English Standard Version As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. King James Bible But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. American Standard Version But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. Douay-Rheims Bible But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked. English Revised Version But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. Webster's Bible Translation But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Weymouth New Testament But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. James 4:16 Parallel Commentary Vincent's Word StudiesYe rejoice (καυχᾶσθε) Rev., glory. See on James 2:13. Boastings (ἀλαζονείαις) Only here and 1 John 2:16. The kindred word ἀλαζών, a boaster, is derived from ἄλη, a wandering or roaming; hence, primarily, a vagabond, a quack, a mountebank. From the empty boasts of such concerning the cures and wonders they could perform, the word passed into the sense of boaster. One may boast truthfully; but ἀλαζονεία is false and swaggering boasting. Rev. renders vauntings, and rightly, since vaunt is from the Latin vanus, empty, and therefore expresses idle or vain boasting. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Proverbs 25:14 Whoever boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. Proverbs 27:1 Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth. Cross References 1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life--is not from the Father but is from the world. Jump to Previous Arrogance Boast Boasting Boastings Brag Case Evil Glory Glorying Mere Pride Rejoice Rejoicing Self-Confidence StandsJump to Next Arrogance Boast Boasting Boastings Brag Case Evil Glory Glorying Mere Pride Rejoice Rejoicing Self-Confidence StandsLinks James 4:16 NIVJames 4:16 NLT James 4:16 ESV James 4:16 NASB James 4:16 KJV James 4:16 Bible Apps James 4:16 Biblia Paralela James 4:16 Chinese Bible James 4:16 French Bible James 4:16 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |