8 Bible Verses about Imperfect Nature Of Human Glory

Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away, but the word of Lord endures into the age. And this is the word, the good-news that was preached to you.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever.

For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is [that] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.

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

But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance, how will the administration of the spirit not be more in glory?

Be not thou afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased. For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

For also that which has been glorified, has not been glorified in this regard, because of the glory that transcends.

and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.