James 1:11

New International Reader's Version

The sun rises. Its burning heat dries up the plants. Their blossoms fall. Their beauty is destroyed. In the same way, rich people will fade away. They fade away even as they go about their business.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

All of them give up hope. They come trembling out of their hiding places.

Psalm 102:11

The days of my life are like an evening shadow. I dry up like grass.

Psalm 102:4

My strength has dried up like grass. I even forget to eat my food.

Psalm 103:15

The life of human beings is like grass. People grow like the flowers in the field.

Psalm 37:2

Like grass, they will soon dry up. Like green plants, they will soon die.

Psalm 39:6

People are only shadows as they go here and there. They rush around, but it doesn’t mean anything. They pile up wealth, but they don’t know who will finally get it.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it’s all dried up.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

Everyone is born naked. They come into the world with nothing. And they go out of it with nothing. They don’t get anything from their work that they can take with them.

Isaiah 28:1

How terrible it will be for the city of Samaria! It sits on a hill like a wreath of flowers. The leaders of Ephraim are drunk. They take pride in their city. It sits above a valley that has rich soil. How terrible it will be for the glorious beauty of that fading flower!

Isaiah 28:4

It sits on a hill above a rich valley. The city is like a wreath of flowers whose glorious beauty is fading away. But it will become like figs that are ripe before harvest. As soon as people see them, they pick them and swallow them.

Isaiah 49:10

They will not get hungry or thirsty. The heat from the desert sun will not beat down on them. The God who has tender love for them will guide them. Like a shepherd, he will lead them beside springs of water.

Matthew 13:6

When the sun came up, it burned the plants. They dried up because they had no roots.

Matthew 20:12

‘These people who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said. ‘You have paid them the same as us. We have done most of the work and have been in the hot sun all day.’

Matthew 6:30

If that is how God dresses the wild grass, won’t he dress you even better? Your faith is so small! After all, the grass is here only today. Tomorrow it is thrown into the fire.

Mark 4:6

When the sun came up, it burned the plants. They dried up because they had no roots.

1 Corinthians 7:31

Those who use the things of the world should not become all wrapped up in them. The world as it now exists is passing away.

1 Peter 1:4

He has given us new birth so that we might share in what belongs to him. This is a gift that can never be destroyed. It can never spoil or even fade away. It is kept in heaven for you.

1 Peter 5:4

The Chief Shepherd will come again. Then you will receive the crown of glory. It is a crown that will never fade away.