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13 Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there 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 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
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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 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and 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 Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.
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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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