KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
James 4:14–15
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James 4:14
14Whereas 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.
14Whereas yee know not what shalbe on the morow: *for what is your life? ‖It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and then vanisheth away.
- Or, for it is.
- Pro. 27.1.
James 4:15
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
15For that yee ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall liue, and doe this, or that.
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DEFINED WORDS
James 4:14
Considering that or in view of the fact that; when in fact, while, or on the contrary, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To disappear; to pass away; to be annihilated or lost.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · KJV usage (PCE)
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James 4:15
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Open the full verse study17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
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Open the full verse study3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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Open the full verse study6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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Open the full verse study10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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Open the full verse study1MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Open the full verse study25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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Open the full verse study5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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Open the full verse study47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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Open the full verse study7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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Open the full verse study12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study21There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
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Open the full verse study3And this will we do, if God permit.
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Open the full verse study37¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
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Open the full verse study21But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
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Open the full verse study10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
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Open the full verse study7For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
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Open the full verse study32That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
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Open the full verse study19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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Open the full verse study25And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
26But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
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