1 Peter 1:24

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The Scriptures say, “Humans wither like grass, and their glory fades like wild flowers. Grass dries up, and flowers fall to the ground.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

Their people became weak, terribly confused. They were like wild flowers or tender young grass growing on a flat roof, scorched before it matures.

Job 14:2

We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

Psalm 102:4

I am wasting away like grass, and my appetite is gone.

Psalm 103:15

We humans are like grass or wild flowers that quickly bloom.

Psalm 129:6

May they be like grass on the flat roof of a house, grass that dries up as soon as it sprouts.

Psalm 37:2

They will soon disappear like grass without rain.

Psalm 39:6

and it disappears like a shadow. Our struggles are senseless; we store up more and more, without ever knowing who will get it all.

Psalm 90:5

You bring our lives to an end just like a dream. We are merely tender grass

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout and spread like grass, they will be pulled up by their roots.

Isaiah 51:12

I am the LORD, the one who encourages you. Why are you afraid of mere humans? They dry up and die like grass.

Matthew 6:30

God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith?

James 4:14

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.

1 John 2:17

The world and the desires it causes are disappearing. But if we obey God, we will live for ever.