Tiago 4

Our Will and God’s Will

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."  * 4:13 Pr 27:1; Lk 12:18–2014 Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring — what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.  * 4:14 Jb 7:7; Ps 102:3

15 Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.  * 4:15–16 Ac 18:21; 1Co 5:617 So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.  * 4:17 Lk 12:47–48; Jn 9:41; 2Pt 2:21