James 4:10-17

New International Version

¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.^(A)

¹¹ Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.^(B) Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister^[a] or judges them^(C) speaks against the law^(D) and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,^(E) but sitting in judgment on it. ¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge,^(F) the one who is able to save and destroy.^(G) But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?^(H)

Boasting About Tomorrow

¹³ Now listen,^(I) you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”^{(J) 14} Why, 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.^{(K) 15} Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,^(L) we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.^{(M) 17} If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.^(N)