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13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's 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 you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, 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 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will 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 you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't 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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