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Summary
- Jazmine is not in the Bible. It is a flower name from Persian yasamin, through Arabic and French; Jasmine, Yasmin and Yasmine are the same name.
- Jasmine is not among the plants of Scripture, which are those of the eastern Mediterranean — fig, olive, vine, almond, date palm.
- Isaiah is blunt about flowers: all people are like grass, the flowers fall, “but the word of our God endures forever” (Isaiah 40:6-8).
- Jesus does not contradict that. He points at the same fleeting flowers and says not even Solomon was dressed like one of them (Matthew 6:28-29).
- The argument is not that we will last but that God lavishes care on things that do not — which is most of what any of us does.
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Sources: Behind the Name entry for Jasmine (from Persian yasamin, the flower, through Arabic and French); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Isaiah 40:6-8; Matthew 6:28-30; James 1:10-11; 1 Peter 1:24-25).
