James 4:16--As it is, you boast (kauCHASthe) in your arrogance (alazonEIais). All (PAsa) such boasting (KAUche-sis) is evil (pone-RA). (ESV)
Alt.:--But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. (KJV)
Alt.:--you boast about your proud intentions (ISV)
Alt.:--you boast and brag. (NIV 84)
Alt.:--ye glory in your vauntings: (Darby)
Alt.:--you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong. (AMP)
Alt.:--you are boasting in your pretensions (DLNT)
Alt.:--As it is, you get a certain pride in yourself in planning your future with such confidence. That sort of pride is all wrong. (Phillips)
Alt.:-- Otherwise you will be bragging about your own plans, and such self-confidence never pleases God. (TLB)
Alt.:--you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil. (Mes)
Alt.:--You brag about the evil plans your pride produces. (NIRV)
Alt.:--You talk loud and big about yourselves. (NLV)
Alt.:--your current speech indicates an arrogance that does not acknowledge the One who controls the universe, and this kind of big talking is the epitome of evil. (Voice)
1 John 2:15-16--Do not be loving the world (me- agapAte ton kosMON), nor the things in the world. If anyone is loving (agapA) the world, the love (he- agApe-) of the Father is not in him.
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Because everything in the world— the desire (epithyMIa) of [belonging to or proceeding from] the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the boastful-pride of life (he- alazonEIa tou BIou) [the manner of living, the things or goods of life]--is not from the Father, but is from the world. (DLNT)
Alt.:--If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. ... the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes (Rhe)
Alt.:--Do not love or cherish the world ... the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things]--these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself]. (AMP)
Alt.:--Never give your hearts to this world ... For the whole world-system, based as it is on men’s primitive desires, their greedy ambitions and the glamour of all that they think splendid, is not derived from the Father at all (Phillips)
Alt.:--Don’t love this evil world ... wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. (ERV)
Alt.:--Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. (Mes)
Alt.:--All the things the world can offer to you—the allure of pleasure, the passion to have things, and the pompous sense of superiority—do not come from the Father. These are the rotten fruits of this world. (Voice)
Alt.:--the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life (RSV)
Alt.:--and the arrogance produced by material possessions (NET)
Alt.:--the craving for whatever the body feels, the craving for whatever the eyes see and the arrogant pride in one’s possessions (CEB)
Alt.:--physical gratification, greed, and extravagant lifestyles (GWT)
Alt.:--and the pride in one’s lifestyle (HCSB)