Matthew 13:20

where other seed fell, denotes the man that heareth the word, and at first receives it with pleasure:

James 1:10-11

let the rich be humbled by his instability: for he is as transitory as a flower in the field.

1 Peter 1:24

for human nature is like grass, and all their glory like the flower of the herb, the herb withers, the flower droops,

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Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

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Matthew 13:20
where other seed fell, denotes the man that heareth the word, and at first receives it with pleasure:
James 1:10
let the rich be humbled by his instability: for he is as transitory as a flower in the field.
1 Peter 1:24
for human nature is like grass, and all their glory like the flower of the herb, the herb withers, the flower droops,