James 1:9-11

Good News Translation

Poverty and Riches

⁹ Those Christians who are poor must be glad when God lifts them up, ^10 (A)and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant. ¹¹ The sun rises with its blazing heat and burns the plant; its flower falls off, and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way the rich will be destroyed while they go about their business.