13 Come, you who say, »To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business,«

14 when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.

15 Instead of that you ought to say, »If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that.«

16 But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.

17 If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.