Verse 13

James 4:13

World English Bible, British Edition

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

Original Language Text

greek

Ἄγε νῦν οἱ λέγοντες· Σήμερον ⸀ἢ αὔριον ⸀πορευσόμεθα εἰς τήνδε τὴν πόλιν καὶ ⸀ποιήσομεν ἐκεῖ ⸀ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ ⸀ἐμπορευσόμεθα καὶ ⸀κερδήσομεν·

English Translation

Come now, you who say: Today or tomorrow we will go to this city and spend a year there and trade and profit.

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Chapter 4 Context

1 Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in y... Focus ↗

2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t... Focus ↗

3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your ple... Focus ↗

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards... Focus ↗

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? Focus ↗

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God (Elohim) resists the proud, but gives grace to the... Focus ↗

7 Be subject therefore to God (Elohim). Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Focus ↗

8 Draw near to God (Elohim), and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify you... Focus ↗

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Focus ↗

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. Focus ↗

11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, s... Focus ↗

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? Focus ↗

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and...

14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour... Focus ↗

15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.” Focus ↗

16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. Focus ↗

17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin. Focus ↗

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