James 1:10 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁰ and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And the rich [person ought to glory] in being humbled [by being shown his human frailty], because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Those who are wealthy should find satisfaction in their low status, because they will die off like wildflowers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ and a rich one, in his humiliation, for he will pass away like the flower of the grass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

James 1:10 Cross References

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 103:15

As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;

Psalm 37:2

for they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:30

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

1 Corinthians 7:31

and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

1 Timothy 6:17

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.