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James 4:13-17

13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city. We will spend a year there. We will buy and sell 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 You don't even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while. Then it disappears.

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 should say, "If it pleases the Lord, 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.”

16 As it is, you are proud. You brag about it. That kind of bragging is evil.

16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

17 So when you know the good things you should do and don't do them, you sin.

17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.