James 4:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble. 2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And this world passeth away, & the lust thereof: but he that fulfilleth the will of God, abideth euer.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. 26 They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 Now the ende of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watching in prayer.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

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    13 Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,

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    15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.

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    4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

  • Prov 27:1
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    1 Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 (7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

    12 (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

    11 For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he.

    16 For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

    2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

  • Job 8:9
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    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

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    24 For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    4 Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

    5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

    6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

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    10 But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

  • Matt 6:34
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    34 Care not then for the morowe: for the morowe shall care for it selfe: the day hath ynough with his owne griefe.

  • Matt 6:25
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    25 Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment?

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    22 Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?

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    6 In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth.

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    29 Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shal drinke, neither hag you in suspense.

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    33 Take heede: watch, and praie: for yee knowe not when the time is.

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    4 He that obserueth ye winde, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the cloudes, shall not reape.

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    47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

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    30 Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith?

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    20 They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

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    66 And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt feare both night and day, and shalt haue none assurance of thy life.