Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
13 Now listen to me, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, where we will stay a year and go into 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 even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.
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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 should say is this: "If the Lord is willing, 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 But now you are proud, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 So then, if we do not do the good we know we should do, we are guilty of 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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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