1 Peter 1:24

New English Translation

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Job 14:2

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

Psalm 103:15

A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

Psalm 129:6

May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

Psalm 37:2

For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Psalm 90:5

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?

Matthew 6:30

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

James 4:14

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.