Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Body » Frailty of
But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.
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David again said: Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes. He said: Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.
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My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me.
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He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
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For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.
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As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
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Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
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A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
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All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
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All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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Endurance » What does not endure
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds. Riches are not forever: and a crown does not endure for every generation.
Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water? While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass. Such is the destiny of all who forget God. The hope of the godless will perish. read more.
What he trusts in is fragile and what he relies on is like a spider's web. He leans on his web, but it gives way! He clings to it, but it does not hold.
What he trusts in is fragile and what he relies on is like a spider's web. He leans on his web, but it gives way! He clings to it, but it does not hold.
Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.
The lip of truth will be established forever. A lying tongue is only for a moment.
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A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
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Flesh » The flesh
My flesh and my heart fail: God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
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It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.
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All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.
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A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation!
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To avoid temptation watch and pray. The spirit truly is willing but the flesh is weak.
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Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
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I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would. But if the Spirit leads you, you are not under the Law. read more.
Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.
Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.
Grass » Illustrative » Of shortness and uncertainty of life
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.
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Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
Grass » Figurative
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
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All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away. The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.
You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass. In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.
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David again said: Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes. He said: Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.
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My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me.
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He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
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For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.
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As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
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Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
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A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
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All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
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All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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Man » A social being » As grass
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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I, even I, am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men? The sons of men are like grass!
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Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass. In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away.
Their people are drained of power. They are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, parched before it grows.
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But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.
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Man » Compared to » Grass
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
Mortality » Of man » Man compared to withering grass
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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I, even I, am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men? The sons of men are like grass!
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Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass. In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away.
Their people are drained of power. They are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, parched before it grows.
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But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.
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Vanishing » What vanishes away
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
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Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
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