James 4:13-16
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Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, (A)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (B)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, (C)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. (D)All such boasting is evil.
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Psalm 75:4-6
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4 I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, (A)‘Do not lift up your horn;
5 do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with haughty neck.’”
6 For not from the east or from the west
and not from the wilderness comes (B)lifting up,
Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked (A)boasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain (B)curses[a] and (C)renounces the Lord.
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
Proverbs 25:14
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Proverbs 27:2
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2 Let (A)another praise you, and not your own mouth;
a stranger, and not your own lips.
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