Cross References

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James 1:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

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


And the world with its lust is passing away,  but the one who does the will of God  remains for ever.


He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.


Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant  or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God,  who richly provides us with all things  to enjoy.


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


and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.


Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.


If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you #– #you of little faith?


My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will look favourably on this kind of person: one who is humble,  submissive   in spirit, and trembles at my word.


A voice was saying, ‘Cry out! ’ Another said,  ‘What should I cry out? ’ ‘All humanity is grass, and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.


More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value  of knowing Christ  Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ


For the High and Exalted One, who lives for ever, whose name is holy,  says this: ‘I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.


The grass withers, the flowers fade when the breath  of the  Lord blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.





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