James 4:14

Modern English Version

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

Barzillai said to the king, “How many days are left in my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, You have made my days as a few handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man at his best is as a mere breath.”    Selah

Psalm 78:39

for He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not return.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have You created all the sons of men?

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease regarding man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is pulled up and removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; I rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; from day even to night You make an end of me.

James 1:10

but the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near. Therefore be solemn and sober so you can pray.

1 John 2:17

The world and its desires are passing away, but the one who does the will of God lives forever.