James 4:14

Good News Translation

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai answered, “I don't have long to live; why should I go with Your Majesty to Jerusalem?

Psalm 102:3

My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.

Psalm 144:4

We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!

Proverbs 27:1

Never boast about tomorrow. You don't know what will happen between now and then.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

Isaiah 38:12

My life was cut off and ended, Like a tent that is taken down, Like cloth that is cut from a loom. I thought that God was ending my life.

James 1:10

and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant.

1 Peter 1:24

As the scripture says, “All human beings are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall,

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near. You must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray.

1 John 2:17

The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.