James 4:13

The Passion Translation

Listen, those of you who are boasting, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to another city and spend some time and go into business and make heaps of profit!”

Cross References

Proverbs 27:1

Never brag about the plans you have for tomorrow, for you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring to you.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time of your doom is before you; the day of reckoning has come. Let not the buyer be happy nor the seller be sad, for wrath is upon the entire multitude.

Isaiah 24:2

Everyone will experience the same fate— priests and people, masters and slaves, their maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, rich and poor.

James 5:1

Listen all you who are rich, for it’s time to weep and howl over the misery that will overtake you!

1 Corinthians 7:30

And those who weep should forget their tears. And those who rejoice will have no time to celebrate. And those who purchase items will have no time to enjoy them.

Isaiah 5:5

So let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard. I will tear down its fence and it will be plundered. I will break down its wall and it will be destroyed!

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language and prevent them from understanding each other.”