James 4:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
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“You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo James 4:14 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 19:34But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
- 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- 1 Peter 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
- 1 John 2:17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
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