James 4:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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:

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  • Prov 27:1 : 1 ¶ Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
  • Luke 12:17-20 : 17 ‹And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?› 18 ‹And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.› 19 ‹And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink,› [and] ‹be merry.› 20 ‹But God said unto him,› [Thou] ‹fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?›
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 ¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
  • Gen 11:3-4 : 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  • Isa 56:11-12 : 11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 ¶ I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
  • Isa 24:2 : 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
  • 1 Cor 7:30 : 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

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  • Jas 4:14-16
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    84%

    14 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.

    15 For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

    16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

  • 1 ¶ Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

  • 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 ¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

    2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

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    18 ‹And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.›

    19 ‹And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink,› [and] ‹be merry.›

    20 ‹But God said unto him,› [Thou] ‹fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?›

    21 ‹So› [is] ‹he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.›

  • 12 Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.

  • Ezek 7:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.

    13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude thereof, [which] shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  • 34 ‹Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day› [is] ‹the evil thereof.›

  • 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • 14 ¶ [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

  • 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  • 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

  • 4 ¶ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

  • 28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

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    30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

    31 And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

  • 33 ‹Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.›

  • 11 ¶ Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

  • 5 ¶ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

  • 4 ¶ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:

  • 7 For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out.

  • 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Prov 1:13-14
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    13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

    14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

  • 33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • 7 ¶ There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches.

  • 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • 37 ‹And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.›

  • 10 And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

  • 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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    15 And he said unto them, ‹Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.›

    16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, ‹The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:›

  • 9 ‹And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.›

  • 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

  • 4 ¶ Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

  • 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both [shall be] alike good.

  • 33 ‹Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.›

  • 12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.

  • 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

  • 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?