James 4:14
Whereas 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.
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- Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
- Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
- Job 14:1-2 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
- 1 John 2:17 : 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
- Job 9:25-26 : 25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, 26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
- Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
- 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
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