James 4:16
Good News Translation
But now you are proud, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong.

New Revised Standard Version
As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

Contemporary English Version
Yet you are stupid enough to brag, and it is wrong to be so proud.

New American Bible
But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

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

James 3:14 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.

Psalm 52:1,7 Unto the end, understanding for David, [2] When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. [3] Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity? . . .

Proverbs 25:14 As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

Proverbs 27:1 Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

Isaiah 47:7,8,10 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:7,8 For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? . . .

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

Revelation 18:7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.

Context
Do Not Boast of Tomorrow
15For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that. 16But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked. 17To him therefore who knoweth to do good and doth it not, to him it is sin.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

James 4:15
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