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13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
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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 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth 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 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both 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 ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, 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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