James 4:14

New International Version

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

Psalm 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

Proverbs 27:1

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

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.

James 1:10

But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.

1 John 2:17

The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.