James 1:10

The rich believer should boast in his humbling, recognizing that worldly wealth is fleeting like a fading flower. Riches offer no lasting security.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
• Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Ps 103:15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
• Isa 40:6The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
• Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
• Matt 6:30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
• Ps 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
• 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
• Ps 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• Phil 3:8Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
• Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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