James 4:13-17

Modern English Version

Warning Against Boasting

¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit,” ¹⁴ whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. ¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ But now you are rejoicing in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil. ¹⁷ Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, it is sin.