James 1:11 - Easy To Read Version

¹¹ The sun rises and becomes hotter and hotter. The sun’s heat makes the plants very dry. The flowers fall off. The flowers were beautiful, but now they are dead. It is the same with rich people. While they are still making plans for their business, they will die.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ For the sun comes up with a scorching heat and parches the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away. Even so will the rich man wither and die in the midst of his pursuits. [Isa. 40:6, 7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.

Common English Bible

¹¹ The sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass so that its flowers fall and its beauty is lost. Just like that, in the midst of their daily lives, the wealthy will waste away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ For the sun has risen with a scorching heat, and has dried the grass, and its flower has fallen off, and the appearance of its beauty has perished. So also will the rich one wither away, according to his paths.

James 1:11 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

Those foreigners wilt with fear. They come out of their hiding places shaking with fear.

Psalm 102:11

My life is almost finished,\par like the long shadows\par at the end of the day.\par I am like dry and dying grass.\par

Psalm 102:4

My strength is gone—\par I am like dry, dying grass.\par I even forget to eat my food.\par

Psalm 103:15

God knows our lives are short.\par He knows our lives are like grass.\par

Psalm 37:2

Evil people are like grass and green plants\par that quickly turn brown and die.\par

Psalm 39:6

Our life is like an image \{in a mirror\}. {\cf2\super [239]} \par We rush through life collecting things,\par but we don’t know who will get them\par \{after we die\}.\par

Psalm 90:6

In the morning the grass grows,\par and in the evening it is dry and dying.\par

Ecclesiastes 5:15

A person comes into the world from his mother’s body with nothing. And when that person dies, he leaves the same way—with nothing. He works hard to get things. But he can take nothing with him when he dies.

Isaiah 28:1

Look at Samaria!\par The drunk people of Ephraim\par are proud of that city.\par That city sits on a hill\par with a rich valley around it.\par The people of Samaria think their city\par is a beautiful crown of flowers.\par But they are drunk with wine.\par And this “Beautiful Crown”\par is just a dying plant.\par

Isaiah 28:4

That city sits on a hill\par with a rich valley around it.\par And that “Beautiful Crown of Flowers”\par is just a dying plant.\par That city will be like the first figs of summer.\par When a person sees one of those figs,\par he quickly picks it and eats it.\par

Isaiah 49:10

The people will not be hungry.\par They will not be thirsty.\par The hot sun and wind will not hurt them.\par Why? Because God comforts them\par and God will lead them.\par He will lead them near springs of water.\par

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, it burned the plants. The plants died because they did not have deep roots.

Matthew 20:12

The workers said, ‘Those people were hired last and worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as us. And we worked hard all day in the hot sun.’

Matthew 6:30

God clothes the grass in the field like that. That grass is living today, but tomorrow it is thrown into the fire to be burned. So you know that God will clothe you much more. Don’t have so little faith!

Mark 4:6

But the sun rose and the plants were burned. The plants died because they did not have deep roots.

1 Corinthians 7:31

People who use the things of the world should live like those things are not important to them. You should live like this, because this world, the way it is now, will soon be gone.

1 Peter 1:4

Now we wait to get the blessings God has for his children. Those blessings are kept for you in heaven. Those blessings cannot ruin or be destroyed or lose their beauty.

1 Peter 5:4

Then when the Ruling Shepherd (Christ) comes, you will get a crown. That crown will be very glorious, and it will never lose its beauty.