James 1:11
“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
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“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.”
“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.”
“I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.”
“And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.”