James 1:11

For the sun rises with burning heat and dries up the grass. The flower falls off, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich man will fade away in the middle of his journey.

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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

10but the rich man of his low position, because he will pass away as a wild flower in the grass.

12Blessed is the man who endures testing. For after he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life, which has been promised to those who love God.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46The foreigners came trembling out of their strongholds. 1

Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked and terrifying person 1 spread out like a green tree in its native soil. 1

Psalms 73:18Surely you put them in slippery places; 1 you bring them down to ruin. 1

Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that fades, 1 and I have withered like grass. 1

Isaiah 28:1Woe to the proud garland crown that is worn by each of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, 1 the garland that is set on the head of the lush Valley of those who are overcome with wine! 1

Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flower wilts when the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely humanity is grass. 1

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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