Scriptures

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

James 4
¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
¹¹ Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
¹³ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."
¹⁴ Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."
¹⁶ But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
¹⁷ Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
James 5
¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.
² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.
³ Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!