13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. - James 4:13-14
15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” - James 4:15
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. - James 4:16
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” - Proverbs 21
“Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house. - Proverbs 24
“ For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” - James 4:14
“15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” - Genesis 3:15
““If the Lord wills” - James 4:15
“ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. - James 5:1-3
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. - James 5:4
5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. - James 5:5
“14 “You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. 15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin. - Deuteronomy 24:14-15
““Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, - Jeremiah 22:13
“You have laid up treasure in the last days.” - James 5:3
“The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. - Luke 12:16-18
19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ - Luke 12:19
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ - Luke 12:20
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.” - Luke 12:21
5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. - James 5:5