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12 There is one lawgiver and judge[a] who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbour?(A)

Our Will and God’s Will

13 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’(B) 14 Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring – what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.(C)

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  1. 4:12 Other mss omit and judge

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

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