James 4:14

you who do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little time, but then also disappears.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

In Context

13Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us travel to this city, and let us spend a year there, and let us trade and make a profit”—

15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

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Cross References

James 1:10but the rich man in his humiliation, because like a flower of the field he will pass away.

1 Peter 4:7Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.

Matthew Henry on James 4:12-17

Caution against Slander; Caution against Presumption. ( a. d. 61.) 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get… Read the whole commentary →

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