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| 13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." | 13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." |
| 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. | 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. |
| 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." | 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." |
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