1 Peter 1:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

All flesh

General references

Job 8:12

Psalm 37:2

Bible References

All flesh

‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.

You have swept them away like a flood, they

fall asleep;

In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”

All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

General references

“While it is still green and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant.

For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.