James 4:14

The Passion Translation

But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes!

Cross References

Psalm 102:3

For my days of happiness have gone up in smoke. My body is raging with fever, my heart is sick, and I’m consumed by this illness— withered like a dead leaf. I can’t even eat.

Psalm 144:4

For man is nothing but a faint whisper, a mere breath. We spend our days like nothing more than a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

What a brief time you’ve given me to live! Compared to you my lifetime is nothing at all! Nothing more than a puff of air—I’m gone so swiftly. So too are the grandest of men; they are nothing but a fleeting shadow!” Pause in his presence

Psalm 78:39

He knew that they were made from mere dust— frail, fragile, and short-lived, here today and gone tomorrow.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, Lord, I am nothing but dust, here today and so soon blown away. Is this all you’ve created us for? For nothing but this?

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.

Isaiah 2:22

So once and for all, stop trusting in man, who is but one breath from death—frail and puny man!

Isaiah 38:12

My body is being folded up and taken from me, taken down like a shepherd’s tent. He cuts my life short, as a weaver cuts his cloth from the loom and rolls it up. From day to night, you bring my life to an end.

James 1:10

But those who are rich should boast in how God has brought them low and humbled them, for all their earthly glory will one day fade away like a wildflower in the meadow.

1 Peter 1:24

Human beings are frail and temporary, like grass, and the glory of man fleeting like blossoms of the field. The grass dries and withers and the flowers fall off,

1 Peter 4:7

Since we are approaching the end of all things, be intentional, purposeful, and self-controlled so that you can be given to prayer.

1 John 2:17

This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.