James 4:13-17

International Standard Version

Do Not Boast about Future Plans

¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.” ¹⁴ You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that.” ¹⁶ But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁷ Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.