James 4:14

New Century Version

But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai answered the king, “Do you know how old I am? Do you think I can go with you to Jerusalem?

Psalm 102:3

My life is passing away like smoke, and my bones are burned up with fire.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.

Psalm 39:5

You have given me only a short life; my lifetime is like nothing to you. Everyone’s life is only a breath.Selah

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only human, like a wind that blows and does not come back.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?

Proverbs 27:1

Don’t brag about tomorrow; you don’t know what may happen then.

Isaiah 2:22

You should stop trusting in people to save you, because people are only human; they aren’t able to help you.

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end.

James 1:10

Those who are rich should take pride that God has shown them that they are spiritually poor. The rich will die like a wild flower in the grass.

1 Peter 1:24

The Scripture says, “All people are like the grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass dies and the flowers fall,

1 Peter 4:7

The time is near when all things will end. So think clearly and control yourselves so you will be able to pray.

1 John 2:17

The world and everything that people want in it are passing away, but the person who does what God wants lives forever.