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James 4:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. "

James 4:14

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

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.”

14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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

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

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James 4:1

"Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?"

James 4:2

"You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask."

James 4:3

"You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."

James 4:4

"You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

James 4:5

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

James 4:6

"But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”"

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