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13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."
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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 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
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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, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also 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 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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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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