James 4:13-17

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Do Not Presume To Direct Your Life Apart From God

¹³ Come now, the ones saying “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such-and-such city and do a year there, and we will do-business and make-a-gain”— ¹⁴ who do not know the thing of ^[a] tomorrow! What is your life? For you are a vapor appearing for a little while, then indeed disappearing!— ¹⁵ instead of you saying, “If the Lord wills, we indeed^[b] will live and do this or that”. ¹⁶ But as-it-is, you are boasting in your pretensions. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ Therefore, to one knowing^[c] to be doing good and not doing it, to him it is a sin.