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The Book of James, Chapter 4, Verse 12

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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
King James Version
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
American Standard Version
Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
New English Translation
Prayer for the Sick Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.
World English Bible
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
14
For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
15
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
16
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
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Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
1
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
2
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
3
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
4
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5
Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.