James 4:13

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.
  • Luke 12:17-20 : 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' 18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
  • Gen 11:3-4 : 3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
  • Isa 56:11-12 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 12 "Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
  • Isa 24:2 : 2 It will 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.
  • 1 Cor 7:30 : 30 and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess;

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  • Jas 4:14-16
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    14Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

    15For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

    16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Prov 27:1
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    1Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.

  • Jas 4:12
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    12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

  • Jas 5:1-2
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    1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

    2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

  • Luke 12:18-21
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    18He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

    19I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

    20"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Isa 56:12
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    12"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."

  • Ezek 7:12-13
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    12The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

    13For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  • Matt 6:34
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    34Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • Prov 20:14
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    14"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Isa 22:13
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    13and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."

  • Prov 23:4
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    4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

  • Prov 3:28
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    28Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

  • 1 Cor 7:30-31
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    30and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess;

    31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

  • Luke 12:33
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    33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

  • Col 4:5
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    5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 1 Tim 6:7
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    7For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

  • Prov 1:13-14
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    13We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

    14You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

  • Prov 24:33
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    33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • John 4:37
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    37For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

  • 2 Cor 8:10
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    10I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

  • Eph 5:16
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    16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

  • Luke 12:15-16
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    15He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

    16He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

  • Luke 16:9
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    9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

  • Rev 18:17
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    17For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

  • Prov 11:4
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    4Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

  • Mark 13:33
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    33Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

  • Eccl 6:12
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    12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • Jas 5:5
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    5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?