1 Peter 1:24

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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,

Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

That is why their inhabitants had little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like plants of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, blasted before it is grown up.

Job 14:2

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

Psalm 102:4

My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food.

Psalm 103:15

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

Psalm 129:6

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks to and fro–like a shadow in a pantomime; surely for futility and emptiness he is in turmoil; each one heaps up riches, not knowing who will gather them. [I Cor. 7:31; James 4:14.]

Psalm 90:5

You carry away [these disobedient people, doomed to die within forty years] as with a flood; they are as a sleep [vague and forgotten as soon as they are gone]. In the morning they are like grass which grows up–

Psalm 92:7

That though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am He Who comforts you. Who are you, that you should be afraid of man, who shall die, and of a son of man, who shall be made [as destructible] as grass,

Matthew 6:30

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?

James 4:14

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.