Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
James 4:13 in context
James 4:10–16
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
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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.
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For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
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But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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