James 1:11

New International Version

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 102:4

My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

Psalm 103:15

The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;

Psalm 37:2

for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.

Psalm 39:6

“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!

Isaiah 28:4

That fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, will be like figs ripe before harvest— as soon as people see them and take them in hand, they swallow them.

Isaiah 49:10

They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Matthew 20:12

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

Matthew 6:30

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

Mark 4:6

But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

1 Corinthians 7:31

those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

1 Peter 1:4

and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,

1 Peter 5:4

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.