James 4:13
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
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Genesis 11:3They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick instead of stone and tar as mortar.
Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, 1 for you do not know what a day may bring. 1
Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove the hedge, 1 I will turn it into a pasture, I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. 1
Isaiah 56:11The dogs have big appetites; they can never get enough; 1 they are shepherds without discernment; 1 they have all turned to their own way, each one covetous for unjust gain. 1
Luke 12:17and he reasoned with himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I do not have a place to store my crops?'
James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail because of the miseries coming on 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 →