1 Peter 1:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ For All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like [the] flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

Common English Bible

²⁴ Thus, “All human life on the earth is like grass, ” “and all human glory is like a flower in a field. ” “The grass dries up and its flower falls off, ”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ For all flesh is like the grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.

1 Peter 1:24 Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

Psalm 129:6

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 39:6

Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for naught are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

Psalm 90:5

Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:

Psalm 92:7

that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

Isaiah 51:12

“I, I am he that comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,

Matthew 6:30

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?

James 4:14

whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.