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 of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for 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 as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

General references

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.