15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.
But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.
For it is not my desire to see you now, on my way; because it is my hope to be with you for some time, if that is the Lord's pleasure.
And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again: But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.
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Commentary on James 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter we are directed to consider,
Jam 4:1-10
The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height.
Jam 4:11-17
In this part of the chapter,