Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones [the covenant of the Law which led to death because of sin], came with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, [a brilliance] that was fading,

and the rich brother rejoice in his being on a level with the poor, because the rich will fade away like the flower of the grass.

For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.

to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, kept in heaven for you,

that when the sovereign pastor shall appear, you may carry off a glorious crown, that will never fade.