James 4:13

Listen to me, you who say ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money,’

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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 gain:

In Context

12There is only one lawgiver and judge – he who has the power both to save and to destroy. So then who are you to pass judgment on your neighbor?

14yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:3Then they said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and thoroughly bake them.” So they had bricks for stone and asphalt for mortar.

Luke 12:17and he began to ask himself ‘What will I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?

James 5:1Listen to me, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you!

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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