James · James 4
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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The verses immediately either side, within James 4.
Before
12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
James 4:13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
After
14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.