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13 And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, "Today - at the latest, tomorrow - we're off to such and such a city for the year. We're going to start a business and make a lot of money."
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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 You don't know the first thing about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing.
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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, make it a habit to say, "If the Master wills it and we're still alive, we'll do this or that."
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Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
16 As it is, you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don't do it, that, for you, is evil.
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If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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