James 1:11

For the sun rises along with the blistering wind and scorches the grass. The flowers fall and their beauty is marred. Everything the rich achieve will fade in just the same way.

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In The King James Version

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

In Context

10while the rich should “boast” in the humble position they now have, since they will fade away like flowers in the field.

12Happy is anyone who patiently endures temptation, for when they've proved that they are trustworthy, they will receive the crown of life which God promises to those who love him.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46They lose heart, and come trembling in surrender from their strongholds.

Psalms 37:35I have watched the wicked acting brutally, spreading like a large tree in its native land.

Psalms 73:18For you send them on a slippery path; you throw them down to destruction.

Psalms 102:11My life is fading away like a shadow that lengthens—I'm withering away like grass.

Isaiah 28:1Tragedy is coming to the city of Samaria, the crowning glory of Ephraim's drunks, to the fading flower of wonderful beauty, sitting above a fertile valley, and beloved by those hammered by wine.

Isaiah 40:7The grass wilts and the flower fades when the Lord breathes on them. Yes, the people are grass!

Matthew Henry on James 1:3-13

Necessity of Faith and Patience; Evil of Indecision. ( a. d. 61.) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea… Read the whole commentary →

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