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Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.”
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How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog - it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
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What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”
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Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil.
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Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.