James 4:14

And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

13Listen to me, you who say ‘To-day or to-morrow we will go to such and such a town, spend a year there, and trade, and make money,’

15You ought, rather, to say ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’

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Cross References

James 1:10for the rich man will pass away ‘like the flower of the grass.’

1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, that you may be able to pray.

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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