James 1:11

Modern English Version

For the sun rises with a burning heat and it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man wither away in his ways.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lose heart; they gird themselves as they leave their fortresses.

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 102:4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Psalm 37:2

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

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks around like a shadow; surely they make an uproar in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it fades and withers.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother’s womb, naked he will depart, as he came; he will not take anything for his labor, which he may carry away with his hands.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28:4

and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is at the head of the fertile valley, shall be like a first-ripe fig before the summer, which when one sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.

Isaiah 49:10

they shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun strike them; for He who has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water He shall guide them.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, they were scorched. And because they did not take root, they withered away.

Matthew 20:12

saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us, who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.’

Matthew 6:30

Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is here and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Mark 4:6

But when the sun rose, it was scorched. And because it had no root, it withered away.

1 Corinthians 7:31

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

1 Peter 1:4

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away, kept in heaven for you,

1 Peter 5:4

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive a crown of glory that will not fade away.