8 Bible Verses about Imperfect Nature Of Human Glory

Most Relevant Verses

1 Peter 1:24-25

For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off, but the word of the Lord endures {forever}." And this is the word that has been proclaimed to you.

Isaiah 40:6-8

A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field. Grass withers; [the] flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people [are] grass. Grass withers; [the] flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Psalm 49:10-11

For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation]. Within them [they think] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name} [their] lands by their [own] names.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.

2 Corinthians 3:7-8

But if the ministry of death in letters carved on stone came with glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was transitory, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more with glory?

Psalm 49:16-17

Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth of his house increases, because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.

2 Corinthians 3:10

For indeed what had been glorified has not been glorified in this case, on account of the glory that surpasses [it].

2 Corinthians 3:13

and not as Moses used to place a veil over his face, in order that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was transitory.

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