James Commentary

James

James Commentary:
I. Greeting and Testing of Faith (1:1-18)
II. Hearing and Doing the Word (1:19-27)
III. The Sin of Partiality (2:1-13)
IV. Faith without Works is Dead (2:14-26)
V. Christian Speech and Wisdom (3:1-4:3)
VI. Submission to God: (4:4-17)
A. Ask God for Grace (4:1-10)
B. One Lawgiver and Judge over all (4:11-12)
C. The Lord's Will over Tomorrow (4:13-17)
VII. Concluding Admonitions (5:1-19)

C. The Lord's Will over Tomorrow (4:13-17)

Ver 13. Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

Ver 14. Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Ver 15. For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Ver 16. But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Ver 17. To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.