17 Bible Verses about uncertainty

For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?

It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"

but when their heart turns to our Lord the veil is stripped away.

But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.

Then the disciples began looking at one another, wondering which one of them he meant.

Then Peter, with the Eleven, stood up and addresses them in a loud voice. "Men of Judea and dwellers in Jerusalem, have no doubt about this matter, but listen to what I say.

double-minded as he is, unstable at every turn.

Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him, I entreat you, brothers,

Then he spoke to them in a parable. "The ground of a certain rich man bore heavy crops.

Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen.

who alone possesses immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.