Boasting About Tomorrow

James 4

¹³ Come now, you who say, _s "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit" - ¹⁴ yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For _t you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, _u "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogance. _v All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ _w So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

1. Cross References
   Proverbs 27:1
   Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
   Luke 12:18 - 20
   And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 102:3
   For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
   Job 7:7
   Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
   
3. Cross References
   Acts 18:21
   But on taking leave of them he said, "I will return to you if God wills," and he set sail from Ephesus.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 5:6
   Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
   
5. Cross References
   Luke 12:47 - 48
   And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
   2 Peter 2:21
   For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
   John 9:41
   Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.