Thematic Bible: What does not endure
Thematic Bible
Endurance » What does not endure
For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
Verse Concepts
Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds, for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.
Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water? While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass! Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes, read more.
whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider's web. He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider's web. He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
The one who tells the truth will endure forever, but the one who lies will last only for a moment.
Verse Concepts
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field. The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass. The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable."
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
Verse Concepts
Related Topics
- A Short Time
- A Time To Die
- Abrasion
- Beauty Of Nature
- Beauty, Temporal Nature Of
- Carvings Of Flowers
- Death
- Disappearance
- Flowers
- Futility
- Future
- Grass
- Grass Withered
- Imminent Tomorrow
- Imperfect Nature Of Human Glory
- Imperfection, Influence Of
- Insecurity
- Last Things
- Life Being Temporary
- Life Expectancy, Today
- Life, Brevity Of
- Life, Human
- Like Grass
- Lips
- Lying
- Lying And Deceit
- Man As Grass
- Midlife Crisis
- Mist
- Money, Stewardship Of
- Mortality
- Not Knowing The Future
- Not Lying
- Overcoming Adversity
- Roses
- Scripture, Sufficiency Of
- Seasons, Of Life
- Symbols
- Telling The Truth
- The Beauty Of Nature
- The Frailty Of Man
- The Glory Of Man
- The Shortness Of Time
- The World Being Temporary
- Time Passing
- Uncertain, Things That Are
- Vapour
- Wasting Time
- Weather, As God's Judgment
- Wind
- Withheld Knowledge
- Empires
- Grandmas
- Lieing
- Smoking
- Tomorrow
- Uncertainty