1 Peter 1:24

Good News Translation

As the scripture says, “All human beings are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall,

Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

The people who lived there were powerless; they were frightened and stunned. They were like grass in a field or weeds growing on a roof when the hot east wind blasts them.

Job 14:2

We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.

Psalm 102:4

I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.

Psalm 103:15

As for us, our life is like grass. We grow and flourish like a wild flower;

Psalm 129:6

May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;

Psalm 37:2

They will soon disappear like grass that dries up; they will die like plants that wither.

Psalm 39:6

no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.

Psalm 90:5

You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

Psalm 92:7

the wicked may grow like weeds, those who do wrong may prosper; yet they will be totally destroyed,

Isaiah 51:12

The Lord says, “I am the one who strengthens you. Why should you fear mortals, who are no more enduring than grass?

Matthew 6:30

It is God who clothes the wild grass—grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!

James 4:14

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

1 John 2:17

The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.