James 1:9-11 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:… There is a fable of a covetous man who chanced to find his way, one moonlight night, into a fairy's palace. There he saw bars, apparently of solid gold, strewn on every side; and he was permitted to take away as many as he could carry. In the morning, when the sun rose on his imaginary treasure, borne home with so much toil, behold I there was only a bundle of sticks; and invisible beings filled the air around him with scornful laughter. Such shall be the confusion of many a man that died in this world worth his thousands, and woke up in the next world not only "miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Revelation 3:17), but in presence of a heap of fuel stored up against the great day of burning (Romans 2:5). Parallel Verses KJV: Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:WEB: But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; |
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