James 1:10

New American Bible - revised edition

and the rich one in his lowliness, for he will pass away “like the flower of the field.”

Cross References

Job 14:2

Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Psalm 102:11

Because of your furious wrath, you lifted me up just to cast me down.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like the grass; he blossoms like a flower in the field.

Psalm 37:2

Like grass they wither quickly; like green plants they wilt away.

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, “Proclaim!” I answer, “What shall I proclaim?” “All flesh is grass, and all their loyalty like the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it.” “Yes, the people is grass!

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One, the One who dwells forever, whose name is holy: I dwell in a high and holy place, but also with the contrite and lowly of spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, to revive the heart of the crushed.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things when all of them came to be—oracle of the Lord. This is the one whom I approve: the afflicted one, crushed 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

If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?

1 Corinthians 7:31

those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ

1 Timothy 6:17

Tell the rich in the present age not to be proud and not to rely on so uncertain a thing as wealth but rather on God, who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.

1 Peter 1:24

for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts;

1 John 2:17

Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever. Antichrists.