James 4
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
13 Ref How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
14 Ref When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
15 Ref But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
16 Ref But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
17 Ref The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
King James Version (KJV)
13 Ref Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Ref Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15 Ref For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 Ref But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Ref Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.